The plan to launch this week a health facility in Kenya for Americans who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus has received widespread criticism – from both Kenyan doctors and US officials working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A health expert reportedly called it "shocking" that the government is "looking to prevent Americans from coming home."

Kenya setting up holding areas and screening centres at border points amid Ebola surge in DRC and Uganda, Health CS Duale says, as US plans to establish quarantine facility in the…