Man Survives Near-Fatal Sepsis After Roast Dinner, Launches Hospital Fundraiser

A roast dinner triggered a Campylobacter infection in Udhyam Amin, rapidly progressing to sepsis and multi-organ failure. He was rushed to the resuscitation room, suffered cardiac arrest, and required ventilation while his blood pH fell to dangerous levels. Parisha Bains, his daughter and a surgical registrar at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, recalled being told he might not survive the day.

After more than two weeks in an induced coma, his kidneys began functioning again, allowing him to be weaned off blood-pressure support and eventually recover fully. Amin, a former sub-postmaster turned businessman, is now back to work and has helped raise £37,000 for the hospital’s intensive-care charity, with the fundraiser timed for World Sepsis Day on September 13.