Montgomery County, Maryland, managers are alarmed by information that a new decree of the administration of President Donald Trump could target federal health agencies for employee cuts.
Montgomery County, Maryland, managers are alarmed by information that a new decree of the administration of President Donald Trump could target federal health agencies for employee cuts.
Thursday, the Wall Street Journal Reported Thousands of employees from the Ministry of Health and Social Services could be provided for dismissal. According to the report, agencies, including the CDC and the FDA, are responsible for reducing a percentage of their employees. The same report indicates that the White House denied that an executive decree targeting HHS was on the way.
Despite the denial of the White House reported by the Wall Street Journal, the report itself sent a new wave of concern by the county of Montgomery, to the house at the National Institutes of Health and at the headquarters of Food and Drug Administration.
The member of the council of the county of Montgomery, Andrew Friedson, whose district represents Bethesda, where the NIH campus is, told Wop that the work that the NIH was doing has a real impact, life and death on residents of the county And people around the world.
“We have literally have people in our community at the moment that goes to the NIH to obtain medical treatment, which are in research tests, which receive their care,” he said.
Friedson added that there are nearly 20,000 employees on the NIH campus, “who come from all over the world”. And, Friedson said that the work of the establishment has a significant impact on the local economy.
“We have 27 NIH research centers and 30 locations in the county associated with NIH.”
The report that there may be discounts of federal staff of government health agencies has officials from the Montgomery county reminding residents that there are efforts to help them.
“We are trying to raise and support them with as many resources as possible and we work in close collaboration with our federal delegation,” said Friedson.
CDC data freezing undergoes the “thaw”
Leighton Ku, director of the Center for Health Policy Research of George Washington University, said that freezing on public statements and federal health agencies, such as the centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was lifted – somewhat.
“We see information on websites,” said KU, who is also a professor of health policy in GW.
She referred to offline sites following an executive decree of the Trump administration in January. The CDC website provides updated information on the spread of the disease as well as research reports.
The weekly ratio of morbidity and mortality of the CDC, which is used as a resource to follow health trends in the United States, is again available online. But, noted Ku, certain information that had to be included, such as updates on the spread of the bird flu or the H5N1, is missing.
Ku said that the subject of the bird flu is “of course, at the moment, an urgent problem”.
“This is not the right time to stop sharing information about it,” said KU, noting their importance to help the authorities and local officials to contain an epidemic. “So when this information is interrupted, it creates a danger.”
KU said that the recent confusion on these actions arouses the concern of students who plan to work in the field of public health.
“Students are afraid,” Ku said. “They expect to be on the job market in another year,” and most, said KU, “said public careers in public, state or local careers.
“I have students and friends who recently went to work for the federal government, hoping to do things to help health and health care in the United States, and they don’t know how long they will have a job . “
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