Jelschan Birtanov

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Jelschan Birtanow (2018)

Jelschan Amantajuly Birtanow ( Kazakh Елжан Амантайұлы Біртанов , Russian Елжан Амантаевич Биртанов Jelschan Amantajewitsch Birtanow * 18th October 1971 in Dzhambul , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh doctor and politician.

Life

Yelschan Birtanow was born in 1971 in Jambul . He studied at the State Medical Institute in Almaty and the University of Arizona in the United States . 2001 final was added at the Russian Medical Academy and in 2013 graduated from the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University .

Between 1991 and 1994 he worked in the department of psychoneurology and in the intensive care unit as well as the institute for toxicology of the accident hospital in Almaty. Until 1998 he worked as a toxicologist and as head of the poison information center at the hospital. In 1998 and 1999 he headed the Almaty City Poison Control Center. He then became head of the Republican Center for Toxicology. From 2005 to 2008 he headed the Kazakh state company Healthcare Development Institute, which is subordinate to the Kazakh Ministry of Health . In March 2008 Birtanow got the post of advisor to Prime Minister Kärim Mässimow . From August to December 2008 he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of National Medical Holding before becoming Deputy Minister of Health of Kazakhstan. From April 2010 to December 2012 he was chairman of the board of National Medical Holding and from December 2012 he was a medical advisor at Nazarbayev University in Astana . From November 2015 to January 2017 he was again Deputy Minister of Health. Since January 25, 2017, Birtanov has been the Minister of Health of Kazakhstan.

On June 14, 2020 it was announced that Birtanow with the coronavirus had infected. Although he said he had no symptoms, he was admitted to hospital a short time later. On June 25, he resigned as Kazakhstan's health minister because he said he was no longer able to coordinate efforts to counter the virus outbreak.

family

Birtanow is married and has four children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Биртанов Елжан Амантаевич , accessed on May 19, 2017 (Russian).
  2. ↑ kazinform: New Minister of Healthcare named in Kazakhstan , accessed on May 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kazakh health minister resigns amid coronavirus crisis. Reuters, accessed on August 19, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Birtanov, Jelschan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Біртанов, Елжан Амантайұлы (Kazakh); Биртанов, Елжан Амантаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th October 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Jambul , Kazakh SSR