Gennady Grigoryevich Onishchenko

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Gennady Onishchenko (2019)

Gennadi Grigoryevich Onishchenko , Russian Генна́дий Григо́рьевич Они́щенко (born November 20, 1950 in Changyr-Tash , Kyrgyz SSR , USSR ), is a Russian doctor. From 1996 he was the chief medical officer of Russia and from 2004 until October 24, 2013 head of the Russian Federal Agency for the Protection of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare . Since then he has been a government advisor.

Life

In 1973 he graduated from the Hygiene Faculty at the National Medical University in Donetsk . From 1973 to 1987 he worked in the Ministry of Railways, from 1982 as the chief physician of the sanitary-epidemiological station of the Moscow metro. In 1988 he became Deputy Director of Quarantine and Infection at the Ministry of Health, and in 1996 he became the Chief Medical Officer of Russia. At this point he also became head of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Consumer Protection and Protection of Human Welfare, which was created in 2004 .

politics

Onishchenko became known for his “health advice and bans depending on the political weather situation”, Echo Moskwy mentioned the nickname “Sanitary club of the Kremlin”. Depending on the political tension, his office discovered dangerous pathogens in Georgian mineral water, Georgian and Moldavian wine, Belarusian and Lithuanian milk, Ukrainian cheese or Polish meat, but also Belarusian furniture, which led to import hurdles or import bans for products from what were often formerly Soviet countries . During the protests against the results of the Russian parliamentary elections in 2011 , Onishchenko warned that attending these events raised fears of a flu epidemic. In February 2012, the cold was simply the reason to “generally” discourage people from going to a demonstration. He also raised concerns about Dutch cheese after Greenpeace activists were arrested in the Arctic . Echo Moskwy asked whose interests it might be in the health authorities' turn against small business owners with shops, cafes and clubs on the ground floor of apartment buildings.

Vadim Pokrowski, head of the Federal Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS , spoke in August 2015 of 15 regions in Russia with a “generalized epidemic” with more than one percent infected population similar to that in South Africa. Meanwhile, during the discussion of a condom import ban, Onishchenko was quoted as a government advisor with the sentence “These rubber parts have absolutely no relation to health” and instead recommended that consumers be “more disciplined, strict and choosy” when choosing a partner.

Web links

Commons : Gennady Grigoryevich Onishchenko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://medizinische-artikel.eu/main/29493-Gennadiiy-Onishenko-ne-podtverdil-informaciyu-ob-otstavke.html
  2. ↑ Russia's Chief Medical Officer : Guest workers are a health risk , RBTH, October 4, 2012
  3. ↑ All-round protection , RBTH, September 22, 2013
  4. ↑ "These rubber parts have absolutely no relation to health" , Handelsblatt, August 8, 2015
  5. ↑ DOSSIER: The bans imposed by the head of the Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko , TASS, October 22, 2013
  6. ↑ Chief Medical Officer: Too Cold for Demonstrations , DerStandard, February 2, 2012
  7. ↑ Foreign policy with agricultural goods: For Russia - against pigs, milk and wine , NZZ, October 28, 2013
  8. ↑ AIDS. A high transmission rate , Novaya Gazeta, July 1, 2015
  9. ↑ Putin targets western condoms , Handelsblatt, August 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Onishchenko, Gennady Grigoryevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian medic, chief medical officer, government adviser
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Changyr-Tash , Kyrgyz SSR , USSR