By Nicole Ireland The Canadian Press
TORONTO – Staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency, a Canadian global health specialist says.
Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this week for meetings about tuberculosis and was there at the time Trump signed the order Monday.
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