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Wyden, Sanders: Federal layoffs threaten organ transplant gadget modernization

By Miles Cooper February 28, 2025 Opinion
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Wyden, Sanders: Federal layoffs threaten organ transplant gadget modernization

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are expressing worry to Well being and Human Services and products (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that contemporary layoffs at U.S. well being businesses are threatening the modernization of the organ transplant gadget. 

The pair of lawmakers requested Kennedy in a Wednesday letter to expose which workforce on the Well being Assets and Services and products Management (HRSA), tasked with imposing enhancements to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Community (OPTN), had been impacted by way of layoffs. 

“We share the concern raised in a letter to you by the National Kidney Foundation that indiscriminate lay-offs of probationary employees initiated by HHS on Friday, February 14, 2025 has already resulted in the termination of key personnel hired to implement OPTN modernization initiatives,” Wyden and Sanders wrote to Kennedy. 

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With the rounds of terminations of employees from federal businesses, some who had been caused by the HRSA to lend a hand practice the 2023 “Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act,” had been additionally reportedly affected. 

“To allow those efforts to pause or cease altogether would calcify the issues within the organ transplant system which spurred this effort in the first place, and would amount to a failure to implement federal law,” the senators mentioned.  

Sanders, the Senate Well being, Schooling, Exertions and Pensions (HELP) Committee Rating Member, and Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee Rating Member, requested Kennedy how a lot of the workforce charged with imposing enhancements within the organ and transplantation gadget had been let move or put on go away since President Trump’s management kicked off on Jan. 20. 

The duo additionally requested the brand new HHS head how he intends to offer “adequate staffing and relevant experience and expertise to ensure continued improvements to the nation’s organ donation and transplantation system in keeping with the intent of the Securing the U.S. OPTN Act in 2023?” 

Teams, together with the Nationwide Kidney Basis, have referred to as for the employees to be introduced again, pronouncing the layoffs “stand in direct opposition to the goals of transplant system reform to improve efficiency, transparency, and the ability of government to respond to the needs of people who rely on the system.” 

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Wyden and Sanders requested the HHS chief to reply by way of March 5. 

The Hill has reached out to HHS for remark. 

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