KDF Ramps Up Ebola Readiness After Americans Begin Quarantine at Laikipia

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🇰🇪 Breaking It Down

In a statement shared with Kenyans.co.ke , KDF revealed that healthcare professionals from across the KDF hospitals had been trained to detect, prevent and respond to Ebola.

“With Ebola cases continuing to be reported in neighbouring countries, the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital (DFMH) is strengthening its readiness through specialised Filovirus Disease (Ebola) training for medical personnel, ensuring its frontline responders remain equipped to protect lives should the threat cross Kenya’s borders,” KDF said on Friday, July 17.

Under the expanded Filovirus Disease (Ebola) training, KDF officers have been taught early recognition, infection prevention and control, laboratory specimen management, surveillance, contact tracing and coordinated outbreak response.

📌 What You Need to Know

According to the Chief of Clinical Services at the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital, Brigadier Muithya Ngundo, the country’s high-risk classification and the deployment of KDF personnel in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have increased the need for sustained vigilance and operational readiness.

KDF is expected to continue capacity building, enhanced treatment infrastructure and the provision of critical response equipment.

Kenya has yet to record any case of the latest mutation of Ebola, the rare Bundibugyo virus strain, which is historically linked to a 30 per cent to 50 per cent case fatality rate.

However, concerns have emerged after Reuters revealed that seven U.S. aid workers have been moved to the controversial Laikipia Ebola Quarantine facility in central Kenya.

The group employed by the Christian humanitarian organisation Samaritan’s Purse is in a mandatory 21-day quarantine.

Samaritan’s Purse CEO Franklin Graham confirmed the news, saying the seven Americans had arrived at the facility and had shown no Ebola symptoms last Monday.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke

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