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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I support the amendment to this Bill. I thank Sen. Kasanga for a job well done in putting it together. Let me also use this opportunity to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani and many other Senators who got State commendation. We are in a state of shock because one of us has been attacked and is in hospital. We have a situation in our hands. Let me add my voice to the support of this important Bill on mental health. Let us agree that we do not understand mental health. From that premise, we will then be able to help in this situation. That, we as a nation, do not understand mental health and that we are used to people being expelled from homes and a burden left to families to deal with their own members. We do not have a collective position that we do not understand mental health. We, as leaders, need to own that, move ahead and even do a seminar on mental health, so that we understand what mental health or illness is about. Madam Temporary Speaker, if today we had to do an alcoblow test, people would run away and others would not want to be known. It could be worse if there was a mental illness test. People would not even show up if we had a voluntary mental illness test. Why? It is because we do not understand mental illness. Mental illness is complicated. In the African context, it is attributed to beyond just medical explanations. The way we explain it is that a person has been cursed, under a spell or paying for their sins or things like that. We have to come to grips with this situation and agree that we want to change it and that we want to treat mental illness like any. That is why in this country, there are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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