Trump ordered US military to build Ebola quarantine site in Kenya.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has launched a scathing attack on the Kenyan government over what it describes as “backdoor negotiations” with the United States to establish an Ebola quarantine and treatment facility at Laikipia Air Base.
The union accused the government of jeopardizing Kenya’s biosecurity and public health system by allegedly agreeing to host exposed or infected U.S. citizens during the ongoing Bundibugyo strain Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
“As the vanguard of Kenya’s healthcare system, we are utterly disgusted by the government’s apparent willingness to trade national biosecurity and the lives of its citizens for foreign aid,” the union said.
“We will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate.”
