Kenya pushes ahead with Ebola quarantine facility in partnership with US despite court order | CNN

Kenya’s government is pushing ahead with plans to establish an Ebola quarantine and treatment facility at a military installation in partnership with the United States after a Kenyan high court temporarily barred the arrangement earlier this week. The facility is for Americans potentially exposed to the deadly virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), more than 1,500 miles away. Kenya has not recorded any Ebola cases. It will help to “strengthen monitoring, isolation and emergency response capacity,” Kenya’s Ministry of Health said Saturday while adding that several other isolation and treatment centers will also be set up, including at Nairobi’s Kenyatta National Hospital and Kenya National Police Hospital. A US government source involved in the Ebola response told CNN that Americans helping to run the facility landed on Saturday at Laikipia Air Base, where the facility will be, about 125 miles north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The US-Kenya partnership “further supports enhanced surveillance, diagnostic capacity, emergency preparedness exercises, critical medical supplies and rapid response capabilities,” the health ministry said. What questions do you have