The Nyeri County Department of Health Services in partnership with other stakeholders has started training mental health workers to help deal with increasing mental cases in the region. Speaking at Whispers Park in Nyeri town during an occasion to mark this year’s World Mental Health Day, the outgoing health services Chief Officer, Newton Wambugu, said […]
Continue ReadingMental health experts are calling on stakeholders in the sector to address inequality as a way of improving mental health in the country. Director of Mental Health in the Ministry of Health Dr Simon Njuguna called on Kenyans to adopt an active lifestyle saying doing so helps reduce stress and social ills such as domestic violence. He noted […]
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A report by World Health Organization (WHO) 2014 ranked Kenya at position four in Africa and ninth globally in the highest number of people suffering from depression. Since then, cases of mental disorder have continued to rapidly rise in the country with government statistics indicating that at least 1 in every 4 Kenyans suffer from […]
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A 26-year-old farmhand committed suicide in Metinkuar village in Transmara West Sub County by hanging himself on a tree in the compound of his employer on Sunday morning. Confirming the incident, Narok county Police Commander Mr. John Kizito Mutoro said the late Kevin Ingunzi killed himself by hanging himself on a big tree using a manila rope in […]
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Caroline Wanjugu Mwangi, 17, a 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate with special needs (Albinism) from Mahiga Girls’ High School in Othaya Sub-county, Nyeri County scored an A (Minus) of 76 points. Her dream is to pursue a law degree to help the poor in the society acquire justice and also help the […]
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