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Man who was given just hours to live after visiting pub to have roast dinner makes full recovery

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A Surrey man came perilously close to death after a simple pub meal of roast chicken triggered a life-threatening case of sepsis. Udhyam Amin, 64, from Kingswood, was rushed to the accident and emergency department at St Helier Hospital in February after falling critically ill. Medical staff diagnosed him with a Campylobacter infection, which is the most frequently occurring cause of food poisoning across the UK. Doctors warned his family that he might have mere hours left to live. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say His daughter Parisha Bains, who works as a surgical registrar at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, described the devastating moment the family learned the extent of his condition. She said: "We were told he had gone into sepsis and multi-organ failure. "Most of his critical organs had shut down. But he made it through the night, and that wasn't expected." Mr Amin's blood pH plummeted to dangerously low levels, triggering a cardiac arrest. He was transferred