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A consultant psychiatrist at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret Dr Edith Kwoba. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard]

May is a mental health awareness month. As a country, is there anything to celebrate?

I think we have made some progress. The former President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2019 announced the need to look into the state of mental illness in the country and went ahead to establish a mental health taskforce.

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