By Angela Oketch & Mercy Chelangat
Infectious disease experts from the United States have arrived in Kenya and are preparing an Ebola facility that Secretary of State Marco Rubio says will be operational within seven days.
The White House confirmed on Wednesday that it is establishing a “state-of-the-art facility” in Kenya to receive Americans exposed to Ebola that is built, staffed and run entirely by Americans, with no Kenyan public health officers involved in the project in Laikipia County.
The facility, which will be at the Laikipia Air Base, is being built near existing British installations in the county, according to sources.
President William Ruto convened an emergency meeting with part of his Cabinet Secretaries, local leaders and some envoys on the Ebola situation in the region. However, the Nation is not privy to what was discussed. What is clear is that by the time they sat down, the train, as one senior health official put it, had already left the station.
