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    "id": 907600,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/907600/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "It is imperative that we support devolution so that county governments can empower institutions in counties to provide medical care to people with mental illness. I hope that Sen. Kasanga will amend this Bill at the Committee Stage to ensure that every Government department will have a psychiatrist to help our people. If you count the number of psychiatrists we have in this country versus the number of people who suffer from mental illness, you will be shocked. I hope she will find a way to include an aspect where every institution, particularly these big corporations, will be obligated by this Act to have a department that will deal entirely with the issue of mental illness. Sometimes we do not care about our brothers and sisters. We stopped being our brothers’ keepers, especially when they are in retirement. I dare say that they start suffering some form of mental illness. As part of preparing them, a psychology department should be set up in every Government institution. That would be one of the good amendments that Sen. Kasanga can add here so that it prepares people for how to live outside government circles."
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