Features of the World Health Organization plan to reduce costs after withdrawal of Washington

An internal memorandum seen by “Reuters” on Tuesday showed that the World Health Organization placed a maximum period of one year for employment contracts, and worked on priorities to bring about sustainability in its duties after the United States withdrew from its membership. The memorandum dates back on the tenth March, and the signature of Raul Thomas, the assistant director of the organization, was signed by new measures in a series of measures aimed at reducing the costs after US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the organization in January. The document said that senior officials in the organization have been working for three weeks to define ‘priorities’ to bring about sustainability in its tasks. She explained that employees are looking for additional sources of financing from countries and other donors. The organization has not yet announced that the number of employees is still being reduced, but has said that “some difficult decisions are inevitable because of the size of the challenges we face.” A spokesman for the World Health Organization did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Last January, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut one of the largest sources of financing for the United Nations. “The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office during the signing of the decision. Trump claimed that the organization “failed to act independently, away from the political influence of the member states,” added that it claimed “unfairly excessive payments from the United States, which did not match the amounts provided by other larger countries such as China.” “The World Health Organization has deceived us, and everyone is deceiving the United States, it will no longer happen,” Trump said. This step means that the United States will leave this United Nations organization within 12 months and stop all its financial contributions. The United States is the largest financial supporter of the World Health Organization and contributes about 18% of its total financing. The organization’s latest budget for two years (2024-2025) was $ 6.8 billion. During his first term, Trump tried to withdraw from the organization in recent months in his first term, but the implementation of this decision was stumbled by an old law in Congress that the president compels a year ago, so that former President Joe Biden decided to cancel it. The World Health Organization strongly denies Trump’s claim that “China’s efforts to deceive the world over the assets of the Corona virus,” saying that it continues to share Beijing to share data to determine whether the Cofide-19 emerges from human connection to infected animals, or as a result of a leak of a local laboratory.