Amar N. Ramadhin is a
Suriname
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se physician and as of 2020
Minister of Public Health
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.
Amar Ramadhin is a
general practitioner by profession, and holds a
docterandus title. He started teaching at the IBW University in Paramaribo.
In 2012,
he started at the Medisch Centrum Macdonald in
Paramaribo
Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's ...
, and until 2020 worked at the General Practitioner Clinic CuraMed in
Zorg en Hoop, Paramaribo. He is a member of the medical staff of the
Surinamese Football Association, and since 2019, a staff member of the Vereniging van Medici in Suriname (Association of Medical Professionals).
In 1999, Ramadhin became an executive in the
Progressive Reform Party (VHP). On 16 July 2020, Ramadhin was appointed Minister of Public Health in the cabinet of
Santokhi.
On 19 July 2020, Ramadhin was temporarily appointed to head the COVID-19 management team.
References
Living people
21st-century Surinamese politicians
Progressive Reform Party (Suriname) politicians
Surinamese physicians
Health ministers of Suriname
Year of birth missing (living people)
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