Trump is preparing to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization

President Trump has signed an executive order executive order The process of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization begins. was between dozens of executive actions He signed after being sworn in for a second term on Monday immigration for foreign policy for climate change.

It is the second time in less than five years that he has ordered the country to leave the organization, although it is a move that many scientists fear could reverse decades of gains in fighting infectious diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Experts also warn that the move could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new epidemics that could lead to a pandemic.

The WHO came under severe criticism from Mr Trump in 2020 his answer for COVID-19 a pandemic that became a worldwide health crisis in the last year of its first term.

The White House said in a statement that the United States will withdraw from the organization “due to the organization’s failure to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and other global health crises that originated in Wuhan, China, to adopt urgently needed reforms, and to demonstrate its independence and undue political influence from WHO member states.” .

He also accused the WHO of demanding “unfairly heavy payments from the United States that are out of proportion to the assessed payments of other countries.”

The order states that Mr. Trump is sending a presidential letter to the United Nations Secretary-General to formally inform him of the U.S. plan to withdraw.