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    "id": 999251,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "That is why all along, I have been a strict proponent that unless one has extreme types of psychiatric problems which would be managed by some psycho-depressive drugs---. Those would only be handled by the doctors and there are normal ways of dealing with them. They can be put in hospitals which have been set aside for treatment. That does not mean that mental illness will be transmitted from one individual to another. I am talking about this stigma element across the illness that the normal populations get without causing any undue distress. It is very important that we must keep aloof some people who have been possessed of that. The major element that needs to come into any Ministry of Health is, first of all, to have competent communicators and teachers who can educate and teach people about a given sequence of a problem and deal with it. Once they have been properly educated, people will understand what the problem is all about. Therefore, this element of stigma will come out and those individuals will not be segregated from the social strata of any society they are in. Madam Deputy Speaker, it is important that these people stay with us in our homes. They may be family members, classmates and workmates and, therefore, they need sympathy. It is just like when people had epilepsy and they were falling down. I noticed that when somebody had an epileptic attack, people ran away. They were thinking that if you assist that individual from that problem, the epileptic attack was transmittable to you. That is far from it because the cause of epilepsy is a misunderstanding of what the problem, the cause and effect is. The cause of epileptic attack may be varied from trauma, scar or other elements that can be defined. Treatment and care can prevent bad accidents from happening. People with mental illnesses may be driven to the extreme end if they are pushed because their stress levels may not be very strong that they can withhold that stress that comes upon them. It is important that the Ministry of Health is able to look at these ways of bringing in these kind of patients to give them care and support. Soon they will get out of that dilemma and there will be no more people like you and me walking around without any difficulty. Madam Deputy Speaker, I agree and support this Statement that the Ministry of Health should look at it. First of all, they should look at the facilities being availed in the counties throughout the country and at the national level. This is because mental health can be treated in the normal health center so long as you understand the cause and effect of it and without running away from it."
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