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    "id": 915792,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915792/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo",
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "It is important that we relook and rethink our position. When it comes to issues of mental health, this has been elucidated very well by people who have talked before me, but I want to look at depression. One would rarely get referrals for depression, but I stand on the Floor of this House, go on record and say that we need specialised units in referral systems to just take care of mental health as it has been said. This is especially on depression. One may not be mad, but a good number of Kenyans are depressed. So, it is important that we rethink that as a community and as a nation. When we come to oncological systems, we have a lot of money going to cancer management systems that are literally ripping Kenyans apart. How I pray and wish that as much as we are looking at referral systems, we would allocate a lot of money for all disciplines of oncology so that we do not have Kenyans going outside for treatment. We have specialised people in the area of oncology. Kenyans should not go outside for treatment. Some of them stay in the streets and corridors of hospitals as they wait to get oncological services. How I wish we would have more and more money put in our referral systems to handle our oncological needs."
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