美国卫生与公共服务部大规模裁员

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mass layoffs

【环球网财经综合报道】当地时间周二，美国卫生与公共服务部（HHS）正式开始实施大规模裁员计划，许多员工在清晨收到了电子邮件，通知他们的工作岗位被取消。据预计，该机构将裁减1万名全职员工。

[Global Network Financial Comprehensive Report] Local time on Tuesday, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially began to implement a mass layoffs plan. Many employees received emails in the early morning informing them that their jobs had been canceled. The department is expected to cut 10000 full-time employees.

此次裁员波及了HHS的多个部门，包括负责应对疾病爆发、批准新药、为最贫困美国人提供保险等关键领域。上周，美国卫生部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪就已宣布了裁员计划，他批评HHS是一个效率低下的“庞大的官僚机构”，尽管年度预算高达1.7万亿美元，却未能有效改善美国人的健康状况。

The cuts affect several departments of HHS, including key areas responsible for reacting to disease outbreaks, approving new drugs, and providing insurance for the poorest Americans. Last week, U.S.Surgeon General Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. has announced the layoffs. He criticized HHS as an inefficient "huge bureaucracy" that failed to effectively improve the health of Americans despite an annual budget as much as $1.7 trillion.

此次裁员计划若得到全面实施，HHS的员工总数将减少约四分之一，降至6.2万人。除了这些裁员外，自今年1月以来，已有大约1万名员工通过自愿离职计划选择离开该部门。具体来说，裁员涉及美国食品药品管理局（FDA）3500人、美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）2400人、美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）1200人以及医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（CMS）的300名员工。

If the layoffs are fully implemented, the total number of employees at HHS will be reduced by about one - fourth to 62,000. In addition to these layoffs, since January this year, about 10,000 employees have left the department through a voluntary separation program. Specifically, the layoffs involve 3,500 employees at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 2,400 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1,200 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and 300 employees at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

此外，美国联邦卫生官员还在追回分配给各州和地方公共卫生部门以及其他卫生组织的114亿美元资金。地方和州卫生官员仍在评估这一举措的影响，但一些卫生部门已经确定了数百个因缺少资金而可能被裁掉的工作岗位。

In addition, U.S. federal health officials are in the process of recovering $11.4 billion in funds allocated to state and local public health departments andother health - related organizations. Health officials at the local and state levels are still evaluating the impact of this action. However, some health departments have identified hundreds of jobs that could be cut for lack of funding.