Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors, began to hear on Tuesday morning on Tuesday morning that they were losing their jobs, which are part of a wide restructuring that would outperform the agencies accused of food and drugs, and to protect Americans from diseases and search for new treatments and treatments.
Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior last week that he was reducing his department by 10,000 employees. The employees said that some of the leading leaders in Washington, DC, had received notifications that they had been resetting to the regions of the Indian health services, which is a tactic to force people to go out, because it would require the move to other parts of the country.
Along with the previous departure, workers will lay off the department from 82,000 to 62,000 employees. The administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The workers said that the notifications started reaching 5 am, which affects the offices responsible for everything from global health to medical devices to communications. Some knew that the demobilization of workers is coming; At the headquarters of the administration in Washington, those responsible for the health of minorities and the prevention of infectious diseases on Friday that their offices were eliminated, according to employees.
Others were eliminated. In the Food and Drug Administration, senior leaders were removed and offices focused on the food, medicine and medical devices policy with deep discounts for employees of about 3,500 agency employees. Some workers said they discovered that they had shot when they tried to wipe their badge to enter the building early on Tuesday.
The position of the higher tobacco organizer, Brian King, a job with a regional office for the Indian health service that includes Alaska, according to Litch Ziller, predecessor in the department. Other employees who oversee veterinary medicine and the complex work coordination to review new drug applications that can work for thousands of pages have been abandoned.
Some leaders in the centers of diseases control and prevent them, including Kayla Laserson, who led the World Health Center, received similar notifications to reset or put on an administrative leave. In the agency, it appears that reorganization, with discounts totaling 2400, aims to narrow its focus on infectious diseases. The entire departments that study chronic diseases and environmental problems have been cut.
The employees who were postponed at the agency included those who study injuries, asthma, gunfire, smoking and radiation damage, as well as those that evaluate the health effects of severe fires and forest fires.
However, some infectious diseases teams were lay off. A group that focuses on improving access to vaccines between deprived societies was reduced, as was a group of international health researchers who were working to prevent the mother’s transfer from children
The prevention of HIV was a great goal in general. Jonathan Mermin, director of the HIV and transmitted diseases, was placed on an administrative leave. The Trump administration weighs the transfer of CDC division to prevent HIV to a different agency within the Ministry of Health. But on Tuesday, the teams that lead the monitoring of HIV and research virus were lay off within this section. It was not clear whether some of these functions would be re -created elsewhere.
In the National Health Institutes, many institutes managers were given notifications by re -appointment to the Indian health services regions, and they were told that they would need to report on Wednesday about whether they would accept this step.
Among them was Dr. Jin Marizo, who left Dr. Anthony S. Fushi, Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases, and Shannon Zenk, who leads the National Institute for Nursing Research.
Communications offices that were highly raised between agencies including NIH, CDC and FDA Renate Myles, Director of Communications at the National Health Institutes of Health, have been notified of re -appointment. Mr. Kennedy, who promised “radical transparency”, said he wanted to unify communications under his jurisdiction.
Emily Heilard, deputy press secretary of the administration, said in an email on Friday that HHS “focuses on communications throughout the department to ensure a more coordinated and effective response to public health challenges, which is eventually benefiting from US taxpayers.”