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    "id": 960421,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/960421/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, suicide is preventable, but if not handled well, it can cause death within a minute. It does not have any medicine or painkiller; it just needs professional counselors to continuously engage people who are exposed to some work that can expose them to some stress, trauma, depression, or form of nightmare. As a country, we need to take special care of the military officers and have counselling and support centres in areas that house them. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know whether it is true, but I am told that if you are sent to areas where there is winter, it may even call for a situation where you are subjected to a form of “treatment.” Some injections are administered to your body, so that you can cope with the temperatures. These things have side effects on these people. Some areas are extremely hot, with temperatures of over 35 degrees celsius. If you watch television, you will see people who are serving in areas where temperatures are 35 degrees Celsius, wearing those combat gears. If you went there, you will not manage even with a light jacket, like what I am wearing. These things have side effects. If you go to a place where temperatures are up to 40 degrees Celsius, you get injected and stay there. For the time you will be there things will be okay, but when you go back to your station, for example, Nairobi where the temperatures are 19 degree Celsius, there will be adverse effects to your body. Nobody counsels these people. They find themselves in a situation where their bodies react. Whenever they go back home, they are not able to behave normally. It is not that they have done anything wrong, but in serving this country they have been exposed to situations that make their kind of work risky and out of the ordinary. It is not normal for anybody to be sent to Morocco and they are told that before they go there, they will have to be injected. But for them, these things happen. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am saying this to demonstrate the kind of work that people from our Disciplined Forces do, which end up exposing them to so many situations that can easily trigger depression and stress. If we do not manage those kinds of situations, we will continue having cases of suicide. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support. 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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