Trump’s Kenyan Ebola facility criticised by US health experts

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A group of American health experts has criticised the Trump administration’s plans to set up an Ebola treatment centre for US citizens in Kenya. In a letter to Congress, they said the project “raises profound clinical, ethical, operational, and legal concerns”. The White House confirmed last week that it was setting up the 50-bed facility at a US airbase in Laikipia County, where Americans exposed to the disease in the Congo will quarantine before returning home. This prompted public outrage in Kenya, which has no confirmed cases. Its biggest doctors’ union has claimed that the US was treating the country as a “containment colony”, and two people have been killed in protests against the site earlier on Monday. Kenyan president William Ruto has told citizens to “relax”. Construction is ongoing despite a court order blocking the facility.