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Prime Minister names acting Minister of Health

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision promoting Permanent Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long to acting Minister of the health ministry.
Prime Minister names acting Minister of Health ảnh 1Permanent Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has been assigned as acting Minister of the Health Ministry (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed adecision promoting Permanent Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long to actingMinister of the Health Ministry.

Prof. Dr Long, born in 1966, worked as Deputy Minister of Health since December2011 to October 2018.

In October 2018, he was moved to the Party Central Committee’sPopularisation and Education and was appointed as deputy head of the commission.

In January 2020, he was transferred back to the Health Ministry andappointed as Deputy Minister of the ministry. Later he became Permanent DeputyMinister.  

During the combat against the COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Minister Long isone of the deputy heads of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control./.
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