Amin went to A&E with suspected food poisoning in February and was told that he was infected with the bacteria campylobacter, the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK.<\/p>\n
He was soon rushed to the resuscitation room where his blood pH fell dangerously low and he suffered a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n
Medics warned Amin’s family, including daughter Parisha Bains, that he had developed sepsis and may only have hours to live.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“It felt like our world had fallen apart. Nothing prepares you for hearing that the person you love may not make it through the day.”<\/p>\n
Bains said it is “nothing short of a miracle” that the former subpostmaster turned businessman is still alive.<\/p>\n
“We laugh and joke that he’s like a cat with nine lives,” she remarked.<\/p>\n
A fundraiser for Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Charity created by the family for the intensive care unit has raised \u00a337,000 so far.<\/p>\n
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