The emergency and humanitarian action programme, together with WHO’s communicable disease surveillance and response programme is establishing an Ebola isolation ward in Kabul as a preparedness plan—there are currently no reported Ebola cases in Afghanistan.
The emergency water and sanitation team is providing support for infection control and prevention by installing a proper wastewater disposal system and a safe health care waste management system to avoid the spread of the virus to the environment in the event of hospitalization of an Ebola patient in the isolation unit.