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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "very few mental hospitals. Why do we not have mental treatment within our ordinary hospitals? It is because of the way we think of mental illness. If you are in West Pokot County and have a mental illness, you have to be brought all the way to Mathari Hospital because we have not trained enough doctors. We do not have enough psychologists, psychiatrists and counselors in this country. It is for the reason that we do not put emphasis on solving the issue of mental illness. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill is an amendment to an Act of Parliament which has been in existence for a while. However, an amendment is simply removing some words and changing a few things here and there. We do not take our laws very seriously. This law has been in existence, but we have not even dealt, handled or used it properly. If we had, we would have solved this matter. We went ahead and devolved health function. However, there is no county and if any, that can handle cases of mental illness. That means that we devolve something without thinking through it. Given the budgets of a county, how would they employ specialists in mental health when they cannot even afford to hire nurses for just every day treatment of patients? While I agree that this is good for amendment, I also hope that we can say that when we had the other law in existence, we did not even utilise it properly. Taking care of a person who is mentally ill requires special facilitations to the families. It requires early identification which we do not have. Currently, we are talking about a system of education that will be personalised to every child and yet we do not have the capacity to do so. We will struggle, but we do not have enough teachers to pay attention to a class of 100 pupils."
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