Nairobi, October 7- Kenya has set aside 241 beds across several health facilities as the country strengthens its preparedness following the confirmation of its first imported Ebola case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The facilities identified to handle suspected and confirmed cases include Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, National Police Hospital and Nairobi Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KNH has allocated eight beds, while Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital has 50 beds and National Police Hospital 49. Nairobi Hospital has the largest capacity, with 143 beds designated for Ebola case management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government has also identified additional isolation centres at county level, with plans to expand capacity if the situation requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The measures come after the Ministry of Health confirmed that a Kenyan man who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda tested positive for Ebola and later died in Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health authorities have intensified surveillance, contact tracing and screening at points of entry to prevent further transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of October 6, more than 652,000 travellers had been screened, while 267 samples had been tested in five laboratories. Only one sample, belonging to the deceased patient, returned positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government has urged Kenyans to remain calm and vigilant while observing public health measures, including maintaining proper hand hygiene and avoiding contact with people showing symptoms associated with Ebola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nairobi, October 7- Kenya has set aside 241 beds across several health facilities as the country strengthens its preparedness following the confirmation of its first imported Ebola case. The facilities identified to handle suspected and confirmed cases include Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, National Police Hospital and Nairobi Hospital. KNH has allocated eight beds, while Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital has 50 beds and National Police Hospital 49. Nairobi Hospital has the largest capacity, with 143 beds designated for Ebola case management. The government has also identified additional isolation centres at county level, with plans to expand capacity if the situation requires. The measures come after the Ministry of Health confirmed that a Kenyan man who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda tested positive for Ebola and later died in Nairobi. Health authorities have intensified surveillance, contact tracing and screening at points of entry to prevent further transmission. As of October 6, more than 652,000 travellers had been screened, while 267 samples had been tested in five laboratories. Only one sample, belonging to the deceased patient, returned positive. The government has urged Kenyans to remain calm and vigilant while observing public health measures, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}