Parliament has today passed the mental Health bill.
The bill has replaced the Mental health Treatment act enacted in 1948 in order to effect a change in medical based approach to treat people with mental health conditions.
The bill seeks to provide an approach to manage treatment and rehabilitation of persons with mental health conditions by making a better provision for the promotion, protection of human rights and freedoms of persons with mental health conditions.
Among others the bill has made the establishment of the Mental health Board that will be responsible in regulating, management, treatment and rehabilitation of persons with a mental health conditions.
