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Over a million Kenyans with mental disorders craving for care

Sammy Macharia Njoroge during the interview with The Standard on Saturdayteam at his home in Thika.
 Sammy Macharia Njoroge during the interview with The Standard on Saturdayteam at his home in Thika.

Kenya: Mental disorders are complex. There is no magical cure.

It is even more complicated in a country without appropriate laws to regulate practice and practitioners rely on a Mental Health Act, dating two and a half decades back.

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