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    "id": 904837,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/904837/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "say kamuti. In other places it is amuti when it is big. Recently, a police woman working in Parliament was killed by her boyfriend. Now it has become excusable. Recently, an old man killed his wife because she had become a bother to him. The old man decided to kill her then commit suicide and wrote a suicide note. These cases have become normal. There is a recent high-profile murder where a girl was brutally murdered. Her throat was cut and was possibly raped by a man. It is likely that the judge will say: ―Take this person for psychiatric treatment to check whether they are lunatics.‖ It has become so casual that when one commits murder, they are treated as persons of unstable minds. This Report highlights that there is no funding. What Sen. Kasanga is saying is that we should put mechanisms in place to ensure that when we are talking about healthcare--- If we were to interrogate the Kshs52 billion budget estimates meant for healthcare that I have in my office, chances are high that Mathari Mental Hospital has not been considered for expansion or for a conditional grant. Conditional grants have tremendously increased since 2013. Are the mental health patients in Kenya children of a lesser God? Dr. Frank Njenga is famous for his role in psychiatry. Sen. Kasanga has said that the Ministry of Health has proposed a policy, but we have not seen any clear roadmap on that policy. What is the human resource component? We buy medical leasing equipment, but what are we doing about mental health? Do we have access to information? Are we doing enough research to find out why children are committing suicide left, right and centre? Is there a problem with mental health? Have we established whether the people in the country, who have been rehabilitated for drinking disorder, particularly in the former Central Province, will be affected by this particular Bill? Is recidivism something that ought to be considered? How do we treat public awareness and mental health? Sen. Kasanga has mentioned that the terminology for mental disorder is not madness. They include bipolar disease, psychosocial problems, schizophrenia and even the ones that have double identity. We cannot even say enough about the important role of mental health. We should look at the legal and proper financial framework, to ensure that these people are treated well. The Constitution says that nobody should be discriminated. It also says that everyone is equal and everybody must be treated with human dignity. It also says every Kenyan must be given a right to good healthcare, under Article 43 of the Constitution that deals with economic and social rights."
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