The Trump administration has started to dismiss personal from the main American health agencies, including CDC and FDA, as part of its plan to reduce 10,000 jobs in the field of government health, sources said on Tuesday with the situation and a health official, quoted by Reuters. The discounts, which also affect the National Instites of Health, are part of President Donald Trump and billionaire Alloy Elon Musk to reduce the level of personnel in federal departments and agencies. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described discounts from centers for disease control and prevention and administration for food and drugs as essential for the efficiency of a swollen bureaucracy. However, discounts – including previous redundancies – led to the departure of top scientists within public health, cancer research and medicine surveillance, arousing concern about how the US will safely supervise the health sector and respond to emergencies. Peter Stein, the director of the Bureau of New Drugs within the Center Division for Medicines Evaluation and Research, resigned on Tuesday when faced with the possibility of being fired, according to a familiar source. Brian King, the head of the tobacco product division of the FDA, was fired, according to an e-mail sent by King to FDA staff, consulted by Reuters. King and Stein's outings are added to the departures of the top leadership from all FDA divisions, including medicines, foods, vaccines, medical devices and tobacco products. The staff also left, and some employees who examine the products say they are struggling to comply with their deadlines. An employee of the FDA said that the staff had to present their badges at the entrance to the building, and to those who were fired and a ticket was told to return home, according to a source. The ticket, seen by Reuters, contained the phone numbers for 10 different departments, in which the employees had to call to recover their «essential» equipment. Other dismissed employees received emails on Tuesday morning saying that their dismissal is not reflected on their service, performance or conduct, according to an e-mail seen by Reuters. According to a source, a car tail has blocked the two main roads leading to the main campus of the National Instites of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where the employees were notified early in the morning that they were fired.
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