25th May, 2020
German Health Minister Jens Spahn has supported the U.S President Donald Trump’s criticism of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Spahn argued that the drive to improve the WHO makes sense but added that now was not the right time to undermine the UN health agency.
Earlier last week, Trump had threatened to make the US WHO funding freeze permanent.
The U.S president insisted that if the agency “does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days”, the nation might reconsider their membership.
However, Spahn retorted saying; “In the middle of a crisis, when you’re putting out fires, you can’t talk about reforming the fire brigade.
“First, we have to deal with the crisis, and only then talk about the WHO”, Spahn was cited as saying by the Financial Times.