A British father has died after contracting salmonella during a luxury family holiday in the Canary Islands to celebrate his 70th birthday.
Leslie Green and his wife were staying at the four star Occidental Jandia Playa Resort in Fuerteventura when he caught the bacterial infection.
Mr Green was admitted to a hospital on the island during the second week of his holiday in October last year.
He died four weeks later after the grandfather-of-one developed complications including sepsis and kidney failure.
Mr Green’s wife Julia also fell ill from salmonella on her 60th birthday – a week after the start of her husband’s illness – and she then spent a week in hospital.
Mrs Green, from Little Lever in Bolton, said the couple had concerns about the food they were eating which, they said, included lukewarm carbonara and under-cooked chicken.
The retired nurse has also claimed that she never saw staff washing their hands and cooked food would be mixed with older food.
Speaking to The Sun, Mrs Green has described how helpless she felt in the last few days of her husband’s life.
She said: ‘I soon knew it was serious and wasn’t just a 24-hour thing that would pass. A few days later he was in hospital and then a week later I was as well.
‘I was lucky in that, while I was very poorly, I wasn’t as bad as Leslie. Seeing him in hospital in those last few days was awful.’
She added that being by her husband of 38 years’ side as he passed away, with one of their daughters also present, is ‘something I don’t think I’ll get over’.
Mrs Green has now instructed specialist international serious injury lawyers to investigate claiming that the least she deserves is answers.
Shockingly another British woman also fell ill around the same time while staying at the resort.
Jennifer Hodgson, the expert international serious injury lawyer at Irwin Mitchell representing Mrs Green, said: ‘This is an extremely worrying case with the first-hand accounts we’ve heard from our clients who stayed at the resort at the same time being very similar.’
Paying tribute to her late husband, Mrs Green described him as a ‘kind and gentle man who adored his family.’
Mr and Mrs Green arrived at Occidental Jandia Playa on October 1 last year.
Mr Green fell ill on October 9 with symptoms including diarrhoea, which led to dehydration.
After seeing the on-site doctor he was admitted to hospital the following day.
Whilst on the ward he developed complications and was placed in an induced coma but sadly continued to deteriorate.
He passed away on November 4 after his life support system was switched off.
After his body was repatriated to the UK a post-mortem was carried, with the results yet to be revealed.
