An Owaka farmer received inadequate medical care in the two days leading up to his death, a coroner has ruled. Mr Robinson records Mr Mitchell's cause of death as "septicaemia secondary to aspiration pneumonia in the context of bowel obstruction''. When Mr Mitchell died he "was not a well man'', Mr Robinson writes. "I immediately recognise Mr Mitchell's comorbidities, and the uncertainty of outcome even if he had been a surgical candidate. Pathologist Dr Leonard Wakefield conducted an autopsy two days after Mr Mitchell's death.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 30, 2019 22:30 UTC