Kenya’s President William Ruto has again defended his government’s decision to let the United States build an Ebola quarantine facility for Americans about 200 kilometres north of Nairobi.
He was speaking during a one-day state visit to South Africa where he held talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“The American government has supported us in this Ebola set-up, infrastructure, health infrastructure, to the tune of 1.8 billion Kenyan shillings,” he said.
The facility in central Kenya is due to host a 50-bed unit for Americans who might be exposed to the deadly haemorrhagic virus.
Hundreds of people have been infected in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the outbreak, while cases of the have also been reported in neighbouring Uganda.
