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    "id": 1368138,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": "the disability medical assessment and categorisation guidelines to make assessment standards across the country. Equally, in the last two months, the Ministry has undertaken an assessment of all heath facilities within the country. We have a preliminary report and based on that report, the Ministry is going to put together a strategy on how we work on the gaps that have been identified. Mr. Speaker, Sir, and hon. Members, from my report, we see that we have a long way to go in ensuring disability mainstreaming and disability friendly facilities. We shall put our report to work together with the Council of Governors (CoG) and see then how counties can adopt it. On the issue of mental health, as a Ministry, we have already developed and launched a Mental Health Policy. Equally, last month, we launched a mental health and wellness policy at the workplace. We have put in place guidelines on how mental health should be handled. We shall be working together with county governments to ensure mental health services are accessible to all Kenyans. At the national level, we have Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital, which I have visited personally. We have put together a plan to see how to equip it, to be able to take care of mental health issues. Most important will be how we work with county governments to ensure that mental health services are available at the community level. Equally, in the just launched UHC, we have recruited over 100,000 Community Health Promoters (CHP). One CHP will deal with 100 households. One of the issues that they are supposed to be tackling is to give education and health promotion. It is expected that they will also play a big role when it comes to handling issues of mental health at the household level and at the community level. I submit. Thank you."
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