This archive report was first published on 28 July 2019.
Ken Okoth, the Kibra Member of Parliament, had been battling stage four colorectal cancer since early this year. He had been receiving treatment in France for over five months before returning to Kenya at the beginning of July.
According to his brother Imran, Okoth had requested his family and doctors at Nairobi Hospital not to put him on life support in the event his body organs failed. This wish was honored, and Okoth passed away at the facility's Intensive Care Unit on July 25, 2019, at around 4 pm.
“He has been on chemotherapy and radiotherapy and they really affected his immunity and he suffered organ failure,” Imran said during a press briefing at Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi. “By the time he was being taken to the ICU, he wasn’t able to utter even one word,” he added.
Okoth had been diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer with metastases to the liver, which he said could only be managed, not cured. He had been using chemotherapy tablets every morning and had previously been treated for ulcers and bacterial infections for about a year.
