Hard questions emerge over proposed US Ebola treatment centers in Kenya

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Workers from the Uganda Red Cross Society disinfect during the evacuation of the body of a suspected Ebola victim in Kampala on May 26, 2026. [AFP]

The United States plans to set up Ebola treatment centers in Kenya for its citizens who contract the disease, according to reports by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

“The initial plan was to monitor those Americans in Kenya, but to move anyone who started to show symptoms for treatment in Europe,” The New York Times reported.

“But the administration now plans to provide treatment in Kenya as well, according to two of the people with knowledge of the planning. Government scientists and physicians who develop symptoms will also be treated in Kenya.”