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    "id": 907556,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "We have talked a lot about how some forms of mental health such as depression are common. We also know that we are in a country where unemployment is extremely high especially for the youth population. There is also a lot of drug and alcohol abuse which is caused by unemployment. Therefore, by devolving these services to the county level, the person at the village level will access them instead of expecting the same depressed and unemployed person to find their way to Nairobi to look for treatment. The sooner we make these services available to the people at the grassroots, the more we can take care of this problem. Madam Temporary Speaker, from the statistics, Kenya is among 54 out of 194 World Health Organisations (WHO) members that do not have a separate budget for mental health. Therefore, as a country whose one of the Big Four Agendas is universal healthcare, we cannot have universal healthcare without including mental health. Also, we cannot deal with mental health problems without funding. Therefore, it will be extremely important that funds are set aside. One of the key issues that make mental health services unavailable is the limited resources in terms of treatment. We also need to do more awareness. This is because many people do not understand when they or their family members are going through these issues. However, for those who have patients who have severe cases, they lock them up in their homes. This is because they are unable to deal with the situation. For example, parents of severely mentally disabled children may be unable to take care of them because they have 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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