USA and Argentina from WHO can affect Venezuela

Huniades Urbina, president of the National Academy of Medicine, warned that the departure of the United States and Argentina from the World Health Organization (WHO) can bring repercussions for Venezuela and other countries of the world in health matters.

Urbina said that This decision will impact the supply of vaccines for countries such as Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela; While they fear that other nations make a similar decision and that implies WHO financing, forcing its closure.

He recalled that WHO encourages and supports programs against diseases such as AIDS, diabetes, tuberculosis, malaria, among other pathologies in the world; Therefore, it stressed the importance of the organization continuing to play its role in promoting health and well -being globally.

He said that, although there are people and countries that have been against their operation, They must recognize their role in the eradication of diseases and their controlin addition to technical assistance to the poorest countries and helps distribute the scarce vaccine supplies.

Donald Trump announced shortly after assuming a new mandate on January 20, the withdrawal of his country from the Health Agency.

The Milei government a few days before a new trip of the president to the United States around February 20, coinciding with the summit of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that will bring together leaders on the right in Washington. The spokesman not yet offered details of the agency of the Argentine president and if he will meet with Trump during his stay in the US capital.

The now president of Argentina was one of the greatest critics of the management made by the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) when the new coronavirus hit the South American country. In interviews he provided being a media economist said that the quarantine model applied precipitated a fall in the economy and that the government used it as a “repression” mechanism.

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