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Minister of State in the Ministry of Health Owen Wells

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Mental health safe houses planned four years after Act

NEARLY four years after Parliament passed sweeping legislation to overhaul mental health care in The Bahamas, the government is preparing to buy two safe houses for people with severe mental health challenges living on the streets — but has given no clear timeline for when the facilities will open.

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