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    "id": 790629,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to say that even in very advanced democracies where enactment of laws has progressed and where matters health and mental health are very advanced like the United States of America, recently when a former student walked into a school and shot innocent children, the country was taken aback and was quickly looking for solutions when the event had happened. What we are doing with this Motion is we are preparing ourselves so that we reduce occasions whereby such matters could happen. If teachers detect a student has a particular mental issue… There is a saying that every market has a mad person and that mad person one day can turn against someone or against traders all of a sudden. This Motion urges that somebody takes action right now. County governments are there. We have our own constituency offices, devolved units, the national Government, hospitals and dispensaries. Somebody can note a person is behaving abnormally and take action. It can also happen in a family. Many families which have such persons do not know where to take them. They do not know when to act and who to talk to in many occasions. Along the way something happens with this particular person. Many suicide cases involve people who are actually mentally sick but the people around did not take any action. All of a sudden you realise that somebody who was very normal and well-schooled with a very good job and qualifications commits suicide. Some of the cases involve people who are already either on cancer or HIV/AIDS medication and one day, all of a sudden, this person realises that he or she no longer needs to be alive and the family is left wondering whether they could have done something about it. There are a many murder cases and cases of violence. The Mover has talked about violence in homes or even family breakups. Most of them are actually instigated by mental illnesses which were not detected in good time. Even stress leads to mental illness. It leads to not only that but also to other diseases like heart diseases, high blood pressure and things like that. If this is managed early enough by the health sector and by all of us working together as it appears in this Motion, we will be able to save lives and take care of people and handle illnesses which have been ignored for a long time. I really thank Hon. Wamunyinyi for what he brought to Parliament. That particular law dealt with professionals themselves. This Motion is dealing with the real situation. If we marry the two, we will have a good effect in the country and we will get the implementation of that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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