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    "id": 1109267,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1109267/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just in one minute, allow me to commend Sen. Kasanga, an architect who has made mental health a great subject in this House. I did not see such passion in the previous Parliament. She is a Member of this House who has singularly dedicated herself to a subject not just in words. She has gone further to propose legislation. I join her in calling upon Members of the National Assembly to fast-tract the Bill that is before them. We shall see the success and the fruits of Sen. Kasanga’s work when we decriminalize suicide and ensure that the referral hospital that we have along Thika Superhighway which people call “Mathari” --- Mathari is a denotation of a place where people who are subhuman go to. We should change that perception and start looking at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital as a place where people go for correction rather than a place where people get condemned. We shall see the fruits of Sen. Kasanga’s efforts when ultimately each and every county government assigns and dedicates a mental health officer. Some of the people who are stressed out because of the pandemic are medical health workers in the counties and they have got nobody to run to. Some of them run to"
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