"Jake Harvey remembers vividly the moment he was told in a Balinese hospital that he had just two hours to remove his father's dead body from the intensive care ward. He had just watched his father, Wayne, die, but within minutes he was told he had to unplug him leaving him to work out how to remove a catheter and a tube that was still down his father's throat."
"The infection was so bad that when Jake removed the tubes from his father's body, they were dark green. His throat was green. When I looked down the back of his throat, it was green, his skin was grey. He was on hardcore antibiotics, Jake says. It was obvious he was septic. He and a friend of his father then had to carry the body into a waiting ambulance."
Jake Harvey's father, Wayne, died at Puri Raharja hospital in Denpasar on 7 January 2023 after rapid deterioration and alleged medical errors. The hospital showed severe hygiene problems, including stray cats in wards and staff moving between patients with bloodied sleeves. After his father's death Jake was told to remove life support and bodily tubes and had two hours to take the body from intensive care; he unplugged machines, removed a throat tube and catheter, wrapped the body in sheets, and later carried it to an ambulance. The death certificate lists non-contagious illness; Jake believes a ruptured bowel from a botched appendectomy led to septicaemia.
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