Geneva -World Health Organization said on Friday that it is considering priority in preparation for the withdrawal of the United States, the largest donor, and provides important services to protect the country from health threats. President Trump signed a presidential decree on Monday Instruct the United States to withdraw From the body that he repeatedly criticized for its handling COVID-19 Pandemic。
“I know this announcement has made our financial situation more serious, and we know that WHO workers have greatly concerns and uncertainty,” said the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom GHEBEBEYESUS, the WHO staff on Thursday. I sent it in AFP on Friday.
He emphasized that UN health agencies regret their decisions by US leaders, and hoped that they were the biggest donors of government agencies -“the new administration will reconsider it.”
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“We are open to engage in constructive dialogue to maintain and strengthen the historical relationship between the WHO and the United States.”
Spokesman Christian Lindmeyer emphasized the reporters on Friday that the withdrawal of the United States was wrong in government agencies.
“A person who protects the United States with a sophisticated health intelligence system that works to detect, characterize, and evaluate threats in real time.” He pointed out the occurrence of the current bird flu (H5N1).
“In fact, we have already contacted us about concern that this could be a problem because the data was not moving forward and could not be shared,” Lindmeyer said. I did it.
Tedros emphasized in his letter that the United Nations needed to strive to identify the “important priority.”
“We are reviewing activities to reduce resource encloses and prioritize,” he said.
He emphasized that the WHO has recently expanded its funding base and continues to rely on strong support from member countries and other information sources.
However, he acknowledged the necessity of “reducing costs and improving efficiency.”
In particular, he stated that the agency was “frozen recruitment except for the most important field” and dramatically reduced travel expenses.
It takes one year to complete the US withdrawal, and under the organization’s rules, the US funds remain. However, Mr. Trump’s order also instructed US federal government staff to stop cooperating with the group. This is to make US Health Bureau on a wide range of health issues of global concerns.
At the beginning of this week, CBS NEWS’s Chief Medicine Celebrities Jon Lapook stated that health experts are already worried about the effects of the US withdrawal.
“The public health experts I talked about are concerned that we have a global leader in this. For example, if there is the following pandemic, it is communication from the perspective of communication. You will be able to take it in the world.
There are other ways in communication, such as medical society and personal outreach, but the rapoook stated that “it is good to make an adjusted effort.”
The White House said in a statement on Monday night that the United States has withdrawn from WHO because the organization is incorrectly COVID-19 pandemic. Born from UhanChina, and other global health crisis, unable to adopt urgently necessary reforms, and cannot prove independence from the inappropriate effects of member countries. “
