US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the need to redesign the World Health Organization, cautioning that Washington may never reestablish WHO financing and could even work to set up an option in contrast to the UN body.
As Pompeo propelled new assaults on the WHO, Democrats in the US House of Representatives blamed the Trump organization for attempting to "substitute" the foundation to occupy from its own treatment of the coronavirus episode.
In a letter to US President Donald Trump, they required the prompt rebuilding of US financing, which Trump suspended a week ago subsequent to blaming the WHO for being "China-driven" and of advancing China's "disinformation" about the flare-up.
Pompeo disclosed to Fox News late on Wednesday there should have been "an auxiliary fix of the WHO" to address its "inadequacies."
Inquired as to whether he was asking an adjustment in the administration of the WHO, Pompeo answered: "Significantly more than that, the reality of the situation may prove that the United States can stay away forever to guaranteeing, having U.S. citizen dollars go to the WHO."
In a radio show meet on Thursday, Pompeo was inquired as to whether he saw when the job of the WHO may be replaced by another association. "We're going to investigate precisely that issue," he answered.
"In the event that the establishment works and capacities, the United States will consistently lead and be a piece of it. At the point when it's not conveying, when in truth it's neglecting to get the results that are wanted, we're going to work with accomplices around the globe to convey a structure, a structure, an administration model, that will really convey on the proposed purposes."
The WHO has denied the Trump organization's charges and China demands it has been straightforward and open.
The United States has been the greatest in general giver to the WHO, contributing over $400 million out of 2019, generally 15% of its financial limit. Senior US authorities a week ago revealed to Reuters Washington could divert these assets to other guide gatherings.
On Wednesday, Pompeo said the United States "emphatically thought" Beijing had neglected to report the episode in an auspicious way, in the break of WHO rules. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus didn't utilize his capacity "to open up to the world" when a part state neglected to keep those standards, Pompeo included.
"I'm sure that the Chinese Communist Party will take care of what they did here, positively from the United States. I don't know precisely what structure that will take," Pompeo said in a meeting with Fox News late on Thursday.
"We need to ensure that we don't have this issue once more originating from China," Pompeo stated, including that the United States had been immediate in making its desires understood to China.
The acting leader of the US Agency for International Development said on Wednesday the United States would evaluate if the WHO was being run appropriately and search for elective accomplices outside the body.
Any danger to absolutely end US financing of the worldwide body would almost certainly rely on Trump prevailing in his offer for re-appointment in the November presidential vote against the hypothetical Democratic chosen one Joe Biden.
The US Congress controls government spending and could pass enactment to ensure subsidizing for the WHO. Be that as it may, to become law it would need to accumulate enough help, including from Trump's Republicans, to go as well as to supersede a possible veto.
As per a Reuters count, the coronavirus pandemic has murdered in excess of 180,000 individuals around the world, incorporating almost 48,000 in the United States, making it the most exceedingly terrible hit nation by authentic measurements.