Kenya covers 224,445 square miles and has a population of about 43½ million, but there is only one mental hospital within the entire country. Since mental illness is a pervasive, chronic health condition for as many as one in five people, one might assume that people in Kenya do not prioritize psychiatric care for their citizens. In the United States, the national health care insurance bill that passed in 2011 and goes into full effect in 2014 reportedly omits inpatient psychiatric treatment. Throughout 2009 to 2011 while the national health care bill was being lobbied, journalists refused to report H.R.619, a congressional health bill introduced in January 2009 that would have resumed Medicaid insurance for inpatient psychiatric care.
Presently, 1.25 million mentally ill Americans are imprisoned and comprise 60% of the country's inmates in cruel solitary confinement. Ignoring mental health care is not without its consequences in the U.S. or in Kenya, where 70 inpatients recently overcame guards and 40 escaped from the mental hospital. See the story below.
"The Christian Science Monitor" reports: Kenya police on Monday [May 13] searched for 31 mentally ill patients who escaped from the country's only public psychiatric facility.
Presently, 1.25 million mentally ill Americans are imprisoned and comprise 60% of the country's inmates in cruel solitary confinement. Ignoring mental health care is not without its consequences in the U.S. or in Kenya, where 70 inpatients recently overcame guards and 40 escaped from the mental hospital. See the story below.
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Samuel Anampiu, the police chief in charge of the area where Mathari Mental Hospital sits, said that about 70 male patients overpowered the guards at the hospital and that 40 managed to escape Sunday morning.
Nine of them have since been brought back by parents and guardians, according to hospital medical superintendent Dr. Kisivuli Azenga. Azenga said one of the patients incited the others after the attendants delayed giving the medicine to the patients.
Mental health care in Kenya suffers from a lack of funding. Poverty, a lack of access and the stigma associated with mental disorders prevent many patients from getting good assistance.
This health advocate was prevented from making calls or using the Internet to promote congressional bill H.R.619 to increase access to mental hospital beds for indigent and middle class Americans, the health bill mainstream media ignored. When scrolling "Dog Justice" blog from my cellphone, I noted that two articles were skipped: "Police Taser and Kill 60-yr-old Mentally Ill Man" and "Mental Health News April 2013".
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Repeat of paragraphs 1 and 2: Kenya covers 224,445 square miles and has a population of about 43½ million, but there is only one mental hospital within the entire country. Since mental illness is a pervasive, chronic health condition for as many as one in five people, one might assume that people in Kenya do not prioritize psychiatric care for their citizens. In the United States, the national health care insurance bill that passed in 2011 and goes into full effect in 2014 reportedly omits inpatient psychiatric treatment. Throughout 2009 to 2011 while the national health care bill was being lobbied, journalists refused to report H.R.619, a congressional health bill introduced in January 2009 that would have resumed Medicaid insurance for inpatient psychiatric care.
Presently, 1.25 million mentally ill Americans are imprisoned and comprise 60% of the country's inmates in cruel solitary confinement. Ignoring mental health care is not without its consequences in the U.S. or in Kenya, where 70 inpatients recently overcame guards and 40 escaped from the mental hospital. See the story below:
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This health advocate was prevented from making calls or using the Internet to promote congressional bill H.R.619 to increase access to mental hospital beds for indigent and middle class Americans, the health bill mainstream media ignored. When scrolling "Dog Justice" blog from my cellphone, I noted that two articles were skipped: "Police Taser and Kill 60-yr-old Mentally Ill Man" and "Mental Health News April 2013".
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0513/40-patients-escape-from-Kenya-psychiatric-ward More information about Kenya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya
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Homelessness, prison and death must not be America's answer to acute mental illness. No one deserves punishment for having a health crisis, especially one caused by lack of treatment. Thank you for coming to give
ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL.
Repeat of paragraphs 1 and 2: Kenya covers 224,445 square miles and has a population of about 43½ million, but there is only one mental hospital within the entire country. Since mental illness is a pervasive, chronic health condition for as many as one in five people, one might assume that people in Kenya do not prioritize psychiatric care for their citizens. In the United States, the national health care insurance bill that passed in 2011 and goes into full effect in 2014 reportedly omits inpatient psychiatric treatment. Throughout 2009 to 2011 while the national health care bill was being lobbied, journalists refused to report H.R.619, a congressional health bill introduced in January 2009 that would have resumed Medicaid insurance for inpatient psychiatric care.
Presently, 1.25 million mentally ill Americans are imprisoned and comprise 60% of the country's inmates in cruel solitary confinement. Ignoring mental health care is not without its consequences in the U.S. or in Kenya, where 70 inpatients recently overcame guards and 40 escaped from the mental hospital. See the story below:
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