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    "id": 916384,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "the country that offers psychiatric services, forensic services, drug rehabilitation services and training psychiatry for doctors and other health workers. This observation of the status of this hospital and what it was meant to achieve being the only institution that offers the services that have been put here do not match the status of the institution. The Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital is in such a state of disrepair that it is an embarrassment that we have such an institution. The Vice-Chair has been there and will agree with me. In fact, it is a forgotten medical institution in this country. It does not match the potential that it has at a time when we are talking about serious cases of depression that continue to afflict our people; serious cases of homicide; people killing each other and suicide. This is the hospital that our Government ought to be investing a great amount of finances in. There is a very simple reason why I am interested in this facility. This facility happens to be in my constituency. I wanted to tell a short story in one minute. Now that we have the handshake, I hope I will find an opportunity to meet the President and ask him. They usually say that when the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta visited the mental hospital, he was accompanied by nearly 30 askaris . One day, one of the mental patients stopped him and asked him: “ Mzee, nawewe umekuwa escorted na askari wengi namna hii, umefanya nini?” They must have gone there for one reason or another. Mzee Kenyatta looked at the patient and said: “I am the President of the Republic of Kenya”. This was in response to the patient’s question: “ Na wewe ninani?” The patient looked at him and said: “Pole sana mzee . Hata mimi wakati nilikuja hapanilikuwa ninafikiria mimi ni Mandela. Lakini pole sana mzee utapona .”"
}