Hon. Brown Ashira Olaly National General Secretary / CEO The Kenya Environmental Health and Public Health Practitioners Union (KEHPHPU)
NAIROBI, October 7, 2026 By Bruno Aero Family Media Health Desk Hon. Brown Ashira Olaly National General Secretary / CEO The Kenya Environmental Health and Public Health Practitioners Union (KEHPHPU) The Kenya Environmental Health and Public Health Practitioners’ Union (KEHPHPU) has warned that Kenya faces heightened risk of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) spreading following confirmation of the country’s first case amid an ongoing nationwide strike by public health officers. The union said the strike has disrupted critical disease surveillance, contact tracing, outbreak investigations and community mobilisation activities at a time when the country requires heightened preparedness to contain the highly infectious disease. In a statement issued following the Ministry of Health’s confirmation of the first Ebola case, KEHPHPU said the development exposed serious weaknesses in Kenya’s public health security system, particularly at border points and other points of...
