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Health Cabinet Secretary: Set up mental clinics to ease pressure on referral facility

Kenya: Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia, has asked county governments to set up mental clinics in their hospitals to ease off pressure on the country’s referral facility.

Speaking at Mathari Hospital in Nairobi during the World Mental Health Commemoration Day on Friday, Macharia said the decentralisation of more mental health care units will ease congestion in mental health wards.

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