Vladimer Tschipashvili

Vladimer Tschipashvili, 2004

Vladimer "Lado" Tschipaschwili ( Georgian Georgian ვლადიმერ (ლადო) ჭიპაშვილი ; born September 29, 1964 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian politician ( United National Movement ). The surgeon was Georgia's Minister of Health from June 2004 to August 2007. He is now Georgia's ambassador to Prague .

Life

In 1981 he began studying at the Tbilisi Medical School . After graduating with honors in 1987, he first worked as a surgeon at hospitals in Charagauli and Chaschuri . In 1991 he completed postgraduate studies at the Moscow Center for Surgical Science , where he received his doctorate in 1992 with a dissertation on liver transplants. Since 1993 he has worked as a manager at the State Training Institute for Doctors in Tbilisi. In 1998 he became director of the N1 abdominal clinic in the Georgian capital.

He has been a member of the Georgian Parliament since 1999. He belongs to the National Movement - Democrats party . He was chairman of the parliamentary health committee and, during the Rose Revolution in November 2003, one of three MPs who went on hunger strike in front of the parliament building in protest of electoral fraud . On June 7, 2004 he was elected Minister of Health by Parliament.

In April 2005, he fired twelve heads of various Georgian health facilities for embezzling funds from their institutions. On July 5, 2007, he himself came under suspicion of misusing public funds. According to the Georgian television channel Imedi TV , he is said to have given the Minister for Refugees, Gia Chewiaschwili, 1,270 euros for medical treatment from social security funds. On August 30, 2007, he was replaced in the ministerial office. He was then appointed Ambassador to the Czech Republic .

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• Curriculum vitae Tschipaschwilis (en)