Hassan al-Ghabbash ( ar, حَسَن الْغَبَّاش) (born 1971) is a Syrian doctor and politician. He has been the
Health Minister A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services.
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since 2020.
Education and career
*1998: Graduated from
Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University
The Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University ( ar, كلية الطب البشري في جامعة دمشق), founded in 1903, was the first university college established in Syria.
The school moved to Beirut temporarily during World War I. At ...
*1998–2002:
Otolaryngologist
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(ORL–H&N) in
al-Mouwasat University Hospital
*2003: Member of the American Academy of ear, nose and throat disease (ORL)
*2003–2020: Specialist supervisor doctor at al-Mouwasat University Hospital
*2014–2017: Head of the Syrian Association of Otorhinolaryngology doctors
*2017: Member of the Syrian Board and Chairman of the Training Committee for ORL diseases
*2019: Head of Damascus Doctors Syndicate
*2020–present: Minister of Health, he has been responding to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Syria
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*2021: Elected to the Executive Council of
World Health Organization
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Personal life
He is married and has two children.
See also
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Cabinet of Syria
The Cabinet of Syria (Arabic: مجلس وزراء سوريا, majlis wuzara' suria) or Council of Ministers is the chief executive body of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Cabinet in Constitution
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Appointment, p ...
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Second Hussein Arnous government
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Otorhinolaryngology
Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspeciality within medicine that deals with the surgical a ...
References
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Living people
1971 births
21st-century Syrian politicians
Damascus University alumni
Syrian ministers of health
Syrian physicians