Geneva – The United States has been accused of acting as a 800 -pound gorilla on the world scene. His absence this week from the annual meeting of its members of the World Health Organization presented it as a spectrum of equal size.
OMS civil servants and delegates from different countries and aid groups have spoke several times about the disruption and the international financing crisis. They were frank on the obstacles that followed, detailed program cuts, job losses and increased diseases and the resulting deaths that are almost guaranteed to come. But they have largely patinated beyond the main cause of these problems – the Taking us on its long -standing financing of the WHO and other global health initiatives.
“Many ministers have told me that sudden and steep cuts with bilateral aid cause serious disruption in their country and jeopardize millions of people,” Tedros Adhanomesusus, the OMS WHO Director of WHO, said on Monday. “In at least 70 countries, patients lack treatment, health establishments have closed, health workers have lost their jobs and people are faced with increased health spending.”
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