The Chicago Ministry of Public Health announced on Friday that the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services has reduced some grants related to Covid this week.
This comes The federal government reduced $ 11.4 billion of grants related to CovidWhich were partially used for testing, virus research, and community health functions.
On Monday, 125 million dollars were reduced in financing Illinois services. According to the Ministry of Public Health at Chicago, the discounts affect 22 contracts and more than 100 jobs.
“The COVID-19 pandemic in the spotlight has shine on how public health that has not been funded sadly has been exposed, and this biological federal funds and other public health agencies have helped in all parts of the country to be better in preparation for managing complex health challenges that affect Chicago,” said Dr. Ulsimbo Aeg, CDPH.
“They will not be able to provide the necessary services without the financing that the Trump administration has canceled.
“This actually affects the most vulnerable people in the state,” said Dr. Dan Lusting, President and CEO of Heimark.
Haymarket sees about 12,000 patients per year. Lostig said that about 600 of these are about to influence greatly.
“Recently, we have found that our recovery program has ended, effectively,” he said.
President Trump announced this week that $ 11.4 billion of Covid-19 funds for government and local health departments were immediately reduced-money that was largely used in the Covid-19 test, virus research and community health functions.
Lusting said they had previously expected to lose the Federal Covid-19 funds in June. Now they are scrambling to learn how to form $ 180,000 dollars that they will lose immediately.
“We do not have other financing flows, necessarily, we can operate ten cents,” he said.
In a statement by CBS News, the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services said, “The Covid-19s have ended, and HHS will not be lost billions of taxpayers that respond to an unaware epidemic that the Americans have moved years ago.”
But for Lustig and those at the local level, the cuts came very fast.
“When you start dealing with cutting and touching public health programs, you decide who lives and who dies,” said Lostig.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said he was concerned about this step because it will affect those in weak societies.
“As we learned through the Covid-19s, it is necessary for us to invest in preventive measures and monitor the protection of our societies from the outbreak of the future. This reduction in financing is the opposite results of our mission of maintaining safe and healthy societies.
Covid-19, measles, and H5N1 disease were used with another pandemic prevented such as those seen in 2020.
“If he is allowed to stand, the financing will be reduced to critical upgrades to our public health laboratories, the technology used to track infectious diseases such as H5N1 bird flu, vaccination efforts and continuous work to better prepare for the following general health emergency,” said Dr. Self Fahra.
Without this funding, CDPH says people will see fewer fortification clinics and vaccination events, less opportunities to monitor and respond to infectious diseases, and a lower number of supplies to prevent the spread of diseases.
The discounts come in the middle Trump administration plans to reduce the workforce for health and humanitarian services As part of the restructuring of the departments.
He contributed to this report.
