The Pakistani parents of a terminally ill teen saw tears in the eyes of their unconscious daughter when they arrived in her Texas hospital room, but she never regained consciousness to see them.

Qirat Chapra, 18, died on Saturday without getting her wish to see her parents for one last moment.

Chapra's parents arrived in Houston on November 28 after they were granted visas to enter the US following an outcry by media outlets, Congressman John Culberson and calls to the White House.

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Qirat Chapra, 18, died on Saturday in Texas without getting her wish to see her parents for one last moment

Chapra's parents Idrees (right) and Naila Chapra (left) arrived hours after their daughter was sedated

Chapra (bottom left) pictured with her family in Pakistan. She moved to the US permanently at age four

Mother Naila Chapra hadn't seen her daughter, who was born in Texas and returned for treatment after becoming ill as a child, in ten years and father Idrees hadn't seen her in longer than that.

They finally laid eyes on her, but the dying girl never saw them because doctors were forced to sedate her to help ease her breathing hours before they arrived, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Neelam Ghanchi, Chapra's aunt and guardian, said the girl's parents were at her side when she took her final breaths around 1.30pm on Saturday at Children's Memorial Hospital.

Perhaps in those final moments, or in a few beforehand, she had been able to feel their presence.

Hira Jethwa, a cousin of Chapra's father said: 'I know that the day her parents came to see her for the first time, her family saw tears rolling down Qirat's eyes even when she was unconscious.'

Chapra's doctors at Children's Memorial Hospital did all they could to save her, but she died on Saturday

Chapra seen being held by her father, Idrees, next to her mother, Naila, in Pakistan, when she was just a baby

Chapra (pictured here celebrating her 18th birthday) had been in and out of the hospital since the age of four

In the weeks before her parents got visas, Chapra shared that it was dying wish to see them.

She said: 'I've been able to survive without them, but I feel like I need my parents more than ever now.

'That's the only thing that I could ask for. Really, that's my only wish. I need to see them.'

It was a request her parents tried desperately to grant.

'This is our daughter's dying wish - to see us, to hug us,' Idrees Chapra said on Thursday.

'It is our wish, too.'