15 March 2004 11:41
Russian PM appoints interim health deputy ministers
Moscow, 15 March: Head of the government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov has signed a decision under which
the minister of health and social development [Mikhail Zurabov] "is allowed to have two additional first deputy
ministers" temporarily, for a period of one month.
Journalists were informed at the Government Information Department that former deputy prime minister Galina Karelova
and former vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Yevgeniy Gontmakher had been
appointed to these posts.
"These appointees will carry out their duties until the ministries of health and of labour and social
development have been transformed into a ministry of health and social reform, established under the presidential decree
on the system and structure of the federal executive bodies," the Government Information Department noted.
Under another decision, [former health minister] Vladimir Starodubov was also temporarily appointed first deputy
health minister.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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