The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) will appoint 10,000 workers and close entire agencies, including those that oversee billions of dollars in addiction services and community health centers throughout the United States.

Amin HHS Robert F. Kennedy Junior (RFK) criticized the section supervised by a “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video clip announcing the restructuring on Thursday. The 82,000 workers were mistaken due to a decrease in the health of Americans.

“I want to promise you now that we will do more with less,” Kennedy said in the video, which was posted on social media.

The restructuring plan plans for weeks of turmoil in the country’s highest health department, which has been involved in rumors of mass shooting, canceling $ 11 billion in financing public health of cities and provinces, a lukewarm response to measles outbreaks, and controversial observations on vaccines from its new leader.

However, Kennedy said that a “painful period” is waiting for HHS, responsible for monitoring infectious diseases, examining foods and hospitals and supervising health insurance programs for about half of the country.

“Make the Americans healthy again”

In general, the administration will fix 62,000 jobs, lose nearly a quarter of its employees – 10,000 jobs by demobilization of workers and 10,000 other people through workers who get early retirement and volunteer semester encouraged by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

Public health experts, doctors, current and former workers in HHS and Democrats in Congress have made Kennedy’s plans, warning that they may have endless consequences for millions of people across the country.

“These employees reduce the safety of public health and food safety,” said Brian Ronholm, director of food policy in consumer reports. “They are raising serious concerns that the administration will pledge to make the Americans in good health again cannot become more than an empty promise.”

But Kennedy, in announcing the restructuring, criticized HHS for their failure to improve the age of Americans and not do enough to reduce the rates of chronic diseases and cancer.

“All these money,” Kennedy said, “All of this money,” said Kennedy about the annual budget of 1.7 trillion dollars.

Federal health workers – who are stationed throughout the country in agencies including the National Health Institutes (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), both in Maryland – are shocking, fear and anxiety through their offices on Thursday. Workers have not been given a pre -notification of discounts, as many Associated Press told, and many remained not sure about whether their jobs were on the cutting block.

“It is very difficult, frustrated and annoying not to know where to stand while we are trying to continue doing work,” said one of the FDA employees (FDA), provided that his identity is not disclosed for fear of revenge. “We are exposed to the disabled and we have this guillotine hanging on our necks.”

“Expansion significantly”

HHS said that the functional cuts in the planned food and drugs department will not affect the inspectors or auditors of medicines, medical devices, or food.

Eva Timikin, a lawyer at Arnold & Porter, who advises customers in medicine and medical devices, said it is possible that it will delay the reviews of medicine and medical applications or cause the lost final dates. “There is a real risk that this will delay access to the patient to treatments,” she said.

The strategy and response will be managing, currently, the independent HHS agency, which includes 1,000 employees, will be folded in CDC and Prevention Centers (CDC).

National Institutes of Health will witness discounts for employees across 27 institutes and centers.

“The only way to reduce this percentage of our employees, in addition to the 35 percent contracting discounts, is to expand the scope of what the national health institutes do in all fields,” NIH, NIH.

Medicare and Medicaid service centers have been relatively avoided, with only about 300 employees reduced. It is not immediately clear from HHS departments or offices, 2,600 will come the remaining discounts.

As part of the restructuring, the ten regional offices of the administration will be reduced to five, and the 28 to 15 divisions, including a new administration of America’s health, or AHA, which will combine offices that deal with addiction, toxic materials and professional safety in one central office.

AHA will include the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Resources and Health Services Department, the Department of Drugs and Mental Health Services, the Agency for Paths and Diseases Register, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The administration said that the department will be divided into primary care sections, mother, child health, mental health, environmental health, HIV/AIDS and workforce.

Central changes focus on jobs such as communications, human resources, information technology and policy planning that are currently spread through many health agencies, including Food and Drug Administration (FDA), CDC and NIH. Agencies reports to the Minister of Health, but they work traditionally independently from HHS and the White House.

HHS said it will also bring together the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Health Care and Quality Research Agency in a new strategic office that would conduct research that teaches Kennedy’s policies.

The ministry said that there are no additional discounts planned.

“Very devastating”

An employee of the National Health Institutes said that discounts and monotheism deepened much of what anyone expected.

“We all destroyed,” said the employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of revenge. “We don’t know what this means for public health.”

Syndicate leaders told CDC workers in Atlanta that they had received a notification from HHS on Thursday morning that the discounts would mainly focus on administrative positions including human resources, financing, purchases and information technology.