John Serut the former MP dies.
Serut, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in January 2020 and had been in and out of hospital died at a Nairobi hospital in the morning of Wednesday, February 16.
The MP was one of the late President Daniel Moi’s righthand men.
Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell that affects multiple organs like the kidneys, bones and liver.
In October 2021, his daughter Michelle Serut appealed to Kenyans to help offset her father’s bill. She had revealed that the family had spent Ksh20 million treating the former MP.
“We have had bills totalling to about Ksh20 million since his diagnosis and have handled it as a family so far. We are now slightly stretched and therefore asking your help in catering for his bills hence this fundraiser,” Michelle stated.
Michelle explained that the was in need of over 5M to cater for an insurance cover after exhausting the one that was in use.
“We pray you to find it in your hearts to give whatever you can as we aim to raise 6,000,000 to cater for hospital bills and an insurance cover,” her statement read.
According to Michelle, Serut was misdiagnosed with Anaemia in 2017 after seeking treatment at a local hospital. The former MP, according to the daughter, would faint and become unconscious.
During this time, Serut was treated and discharged. However, the situation worsened, later on, like Cancer, which was lurking in the shadows surfaced.
A specialist at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) attended to him and discovered that he had bone marrow cancer.
Michelle told Kenyans that their fathers illness threw them off and put her in a spot where she saw how grim and expensive the healthcare sector in Kenya is.
Serut is the immediate former MP of Mt Elgon Constituency in Bungoma County. He was trounced by incumbent lawmaker Fred Kapondi in 2017.
