Ken Okoth dies: Kibra MP Ken Okoth has died. The member of parliament has died after a long battle with colorectal cancer.
The MP died while undergoing treatment at the Nairobi Hospital where he was rushed on Friday and admitted at the ICU section.
Earlier in the year, 41-year-old Okoth revealed that he has been battling colorectal cancer in an interview with the Sunday Standard.
“I was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer with metastases to the liver,” he told the paper.
Colorectal cancer comes when cancer develops from both the colon and rectum. 50 per cent of colorectal cancer patients develop metastasis disease of the liver, which are tumour growths in the liver, spread from cancer causing cells in some part of the body.
For over a year, Okoth presented symptoms of ulcers, at times bacterial infections and that is what he was being treated for.
“He was even put on drugs to manage stress. Okoth says that all that time, he was battling abdominal pain and weight loss. By the time his doctor ordered some advanced scans, the cancer was found at stage four. It was shocking news to his family,” the paper reports.
