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"speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. There is no data or information that indicates that criminalising suicidal attempts has improved or reduced suicidal attempts. Sometimes, we use money or funds in the wrong interventions. Instead of taking that person to prison and leaving his or her entire household in abject poverty, it is improving the suicidal ideation more which can result in the attempt, more than if you leave this person in the household, and have some measures. I hope my Chairperson is listening. Instead of Mathare Mental Hospital, we should decentralise mental services to primary healthcare so that they can be addressed at the household and also dispensaries and health centres. Speaking the truth, suicidal ideation, attempts and some completion is an epidemic. People are not surviving. It is not like what Hon. Sunkuli says that they do not want to live. They see that they cannot live, and that is why they take away their lives. I support the Petition. We should decentralise mental health to primary healthcare."
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