final rest : One of Princess Nyambura’s last photos, taken at KNH.

by Nancy Makena.

Four-year-old girl loses fight with cancer.

The four-year-old girl deported from India in December last year because she could not raise Sh4 million for her cancer treatment, has passed away.
Princess Josephine Nyambura touched the heart of many Kenyans when she promised her father "daddy sitakufa (daddy, I will not die)" as he desperately sold the last of his household items to fund her treatment.
She has battled an aggressive form of acute lymphocytic leukemia, a cancer of blood and the bone marrow since 2014.
Princess life would have been saved through a bone marrow transplant at Artemis Hospital in India but medics complained her family struggled to even pay for the preparatory treatment.
Her father, Julius Macharia, said she died at the Kenyatta National Hospital where she was admitted after deportation. She was badly swollen and need urgent transfusion of platelets.
A small team of friends and well-wishers supported the family as Macharia and his wife Caroline Mukiri struggled to find money.