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    "id": 1460320,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1460320/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Farah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion brought by Hon. Mishi Mboko. While I support it, I would like to differ a bit with some of her recommendations and modify them to align with the policy that is already in place. We are not short of policies in this country. There is a policy that already exists: The Mental Health Policy of 2015 to 2030. It only needs a small modification to align with what Hon. Mishi is intending to do. Mental health is a very critical issue for a person to survive or live in this country. The past mental health is the state of the person’s well-being to cope with the stress of this world, work and learn well to contribute to society positively. What does that tell you? It tells you that if a person is not stable and is suffering mentally, he will not learn properly, work well, or contribute to society or the community positively. Mental health has not been given the required attention by this country. Allow me to add some recommendations to what Hon. Mishi has already stated. We are shy in a way facing the challenges of mental health. It has already been said that one person out of 10 in the population suffers from mental health issues. But the question is: how many of us are suffering from mental health issues? We do not know. We do not have the statistics. Why? Because we have no experts to identify and know exactly who is suffering from mental health issues and who is not. When we go to hospitals, we shy away from presenting ourselves to doctors to talk The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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