Ugarte is a physician and surgeon who was vice-minister of health in Alejandro Toledo's presidency.
The minister of health admitted this week that some hospitals would have to close.
Kan established himself on the national stage after Ryutaro Hashimoto appointed him Minister of Health in 1996.
With Mr Kato in the political wilderness, the best reformist hope is Junichiro Koizumi, a former minister of health and welfare.
But just like your electric power company, you can sell your product only at a price acceptable to Canada's minister of health.
She will have to overcome a relative lack of experience having entered frontline politics late, she was minister of health and then defence.
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That record eventually became a report to the Minister of Health.
There was also a bomb attack targeting a senior Iraqi medical official in eastern Baghdad, which left one minister of health employee dead.
It found that 7.1% of Chinese adults were obese and 22.8% were overweight, Wang Longde, China's vice minister of health, told a news conference.
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This led to missteps, such as the appointment of a minister of health who turned out to be a high-ranking member of the Baath Party.
After returning to Chile, Bachelet became a pediatrician and then entered politics, serving as minister of health and as minister of defense before winning the presidency.
For example, Executive Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang claimed discrepancies in Beijing's SARS statistics were only due to "poor coordination" among government departments and hospitals.
Huang Jiefu, vice minister of health, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that a trial system for public organ donation has been launched in some areas.
According to Solari's son--also named Alfredo--a senior health adviser at the Inter-American Development Bank and former Minister of Health of Uruguay, his father's situation is not uncommon.
Mam Bunheng, the Cambodian minister of health, in a statement.
These won her many plaudits yet she reserved her severest criticisms until after the government publicly admitted its errors, and fired its minister of health and the mayor of Beijing.
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Her plea echoes that of Ma Xiaowei, a vice-minister of health, who said that during a random inspection of plastic surgery clinics in 2010, fewer than half met national standards.
Even one of Mr Abe's fiercest critics, Yoichi Masuzoe, who called for his resignation after the upper-house defeat, has been made minister of health and welfare admittedly an unenviable job, since he must clean up the mess of the missing pensions records.
It is probably the first time in Ecuador that a minister of health wants to make himself accountable to the public for the way health services are managed, while simultaneously advancing efforts to securing progressive universal and optimal care with dignity.
Speaking on a panel that included UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, French Minister of Health Nora Berra and the Liberian Minister of Agriculture Florence Chenoweth, Director General Bokova underlined UNESCO's work to advance girls' literacy through a global initiative launched earlier this year with U.N.
Mr Ruane was considered the most likely Welsh member of the government to quit following the resignations of cabinet minister Robin Cook, Health Minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath and Home Office Minister John Denham.
Masks carry both physical and psychological benefits, said Dr. Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and current dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
On Monday, Mr Stewart had accused the health minister of victimising him for his refusal to sack Sean Donaghy, the chief executive of the Northern Health Trust, over the missed targets.
Julio Frenk, former health minister of Mexico and now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, holds an opposing view: The disease could be killing people who are not healthy because of their living conditions.
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And the trend is worrying policy-makers such as Aline Wong, the country's senior minister of state for health.
Pressed by opposition lawmakers in parliament, Yoko Komiyama, minister of welfare, health and labor, has said she would consider reducing welfare payments.
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The idea, says Aline Wong, Singapore's senior minister of state for health and education, is to allow government hospitals greater flexibility and creativity in how they serve patients.
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