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    "id": 1460248,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": "if you walk into any health facility, you should meet personnel waiting for you, if you have a mental illness. As a House, this is the policy we are being called upon to develop. What is lacking in Kenya? We do not have data. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that 10 per cent of the world's population has mental illnesses. We do not know the percentage in Kenya. The national Government should collaborate with the county governments, institutions, and churches so as to conduct research. This will help us to understand the intensity of these illnesses by region, age, gender, occupation, and family status. Mental illness is not confined to the poor. If we research, we will know how to respond in terms of training, distribution of medicine, therapies, and other factors. There are known symptoms of mental illnesses. Currently, there is a high level of suicide. People shoot others carelessly while others roam in town without doing anything much. There are many divorces and there is a lot of fighting in families. All these are symptoms of a depressed society. You may think that Members of Parliament are sane people, but I can tell you for a fact that some of us here are mad. Madness, in this sense, does not mean being mad but in the way we speak and react to issues."
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