On July 7, local time, the United States parliament has officially received Trump government notice of withdrawal from the World Health Organization (World Health Organization,WHO).
The Trump said the U.S. would stop funding altogether as the World Health Organization refused to make the required reforms WHO .Trump earlier accusing WHO of concealing the scale of the epidemic for China.
senator Bob Menendes (Bob Menendez), a senior member of the Senate Foreign relationship Committee, released the news on Tuesday.
Menendez wrote :" parliament was informed that the President formally withdrew the United States from @WHO during the pandemic. To call Trump response to COVID chaotic and incoherent is unfair. This does not protect American lives or interests – it makes Americans sick and American isolation. "
The news confirmed the us government's plans to push ahead with its exit from the WHO after members of the republican china working group last month urged Trump president to reconsider his decision to end the WHO relationship, arguing that the us as a member could take more steps to influence change.
The World Health Organization, a specialized agency under the common country, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, had 194 member States in WHO as of 2015, with only sovereignty countries participating, and was the largest international health organization in government. One of the functions of the WHO is to "contribute to the prevention and control of epidemics ", so every time a major global epidemic occurs, WHO intervene to assess it.