
The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services cuts 10,000 jobs. Employees began obtaining termination notifications on Tuesday.
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The Trump administration began sending termination notifications to thousands of employees in federal health agencies on Tuesday, according to interviews with employees and officials in many agencies and emails reviewed by NPR.
The Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services announced last week that it intends to reject 10,000 people. These cuts come at the head of about 10,000 people who already leave the agencies under the Trump administration thorn in displaying roads and early retirement.
On Tuesday morning, emails for terminals went out to the employees and leadership of agencies inside HHS, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in addition to many smaller agencies.
On Thursday, World Health Minister Robert F. said. Kennedy Junior in a statement that the demobilization of the workers was aimed at reducing the “bureaucratic extension”. “We are reorganizing the organization with its basic mission and our new priorities in contrast to the paw of chronic disease,” he said.


But the agency’s employees and leaders in this field say that the cuts are a blow to public health, medicine and biomedical research in the United States
“We haven’t seen anything like this before,” Dr. Ashish Jh, Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Brown, who served as the coordinator of President Biden Kovid 19, told NPR in an interview.
“We rely on our disease control center for things such as tracking the disease. We rely on the national health institutes to research new treatments, tests and vaccines. At this moment, whether this will remain effective has been really questioned. We do not know more effects on that.
HHS, FDA and NIH immediately did not respond to the NPR request for comment.
FDA sees major changes
In the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the entire team that deals with contacts with the agency lost their jobs, according to employees who were among those who opened fire. They spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed for fear of revenge because of his public criticism. According to the HHS Facts newspaper, 3,500 FDA jobs are eliminated. Dr. Peter Marx, the best food and drug management vaccine organizer, revealed on Friday that he was forced to leave.
At the Food and Drug Administration Center for the Evaluation and Research of Narcotics, more than 800 people have been their jobs, according to an official who has been demobilized and is afraid to share information. This part of the agency is responsible for new drug approvals as well as monitoring unexpected side effects after approval and making changes in stickers.
The former food and drug administration leaders who served under the heads of both sides have moved to social media to express their concerns about discounts.
“FDA as we knew that he has finished,” Dr. Robert Calif, who served as a food and drug administration commissioner twice, and was shot in January, Books on LinkedIn. He explained that he was “immersed” with messages about employee discounts and that the agency leaders who know more about the development of the product and safety have been left.
“I think history will see this [as] “A big mistake” wrote. I will be happy if I prove wrong, but until then there is no good reason to treat people this way. It will be interesting to hear from the new driving how they plan to restore “Humpty Dumpty” together again. “
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who served as the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner during the first period of Trump from May 2017 to April 2019, Books on x Tuesday that he fears that the United States will not be the first to obtain new drugs and treatments as a result of the discounts of food and drug management employees.
Leaders of the National Institutes of Health are reset
Hundreds of employees in the National Institutes of Health received notifications. About 1,200 jobs were expected to be reduced in the agency. Many discounts in the National Health Institutes of Health include communications, information technology and other support staff. But it seems that many officials of the national health institutes of high level are at least on their way out.
Dr. Jin Maryzo, who took over the position of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Dr. Anthony Fushi, was re -appointed to the Indian health service elsewhere in the country, according to an email message with NPR.
Many other leaders received the same offer including Renate Myles, Director of Communications at the National Health Institutes, Dr. Eliseo J
“Despair, I think, is the right word.” The person, who has not been separated, asked not to be recognized because of the fear of losing her job.
The discounts prompted a wide condemnation outside the agency.
Jeremy Berg of the University of Pittsburg, who served as director of the National Institute for Public Medical Sciences, is part of the National Health Institutes, from 2003 to 2011, written on the National Institute of Public Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Health Institutes, from 2003 to 2011, written on the National Institute of Public Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Health Institutes, from 2003 to 2011, she wrote the position of Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Health Institutes From 2003 to 2011, I wrote the position of Director of the National Institute of Public Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Health Institutes, from 2003 to 2011. “I try not to be extra but it seems that this is a massacre … I honestly do not know where to do this.”
Some members of Congress raised the alert about the cuts in HHS.
“The Trump administration launched an unprecedented attack on the federal health workforce,” said Frank Balon Junior, a member of the Energy and Trade Committee in the field of technology supervision and cyber security related to medical devices.
“[Sec.] Kennedy claims that healthcare services will not be harmed by reducing their dramatic size, but it is wrong, and everyone who pays any attention knows this. “