Ogtay Shiraliyev Kazim oglu ( az, Oqtay Şirəliyev Kazım oğlu; born in 1950) is a professor, PhD and
Azerbaijani politician who served as the
Minister of Healthcare of Azerbaijan Republic from 2005 to 2021.
Early life
Shiraliyev was born in 1950 in
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
,
Azerbaijan. He graduated from
Azerbaijan Medical University and completed his doctoral degree in
Moscow,
Russia.
In 1988, Shiraliyev was appointed the Director of State Medical Diagnostics Center which he headed for 17 years.
Political career
On October 20, 2005 President
Ilham Aliyev
Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev ( az, İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, ; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan, serving in the post since 31 October 2003.
The son and second child of the former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, ...
sacked previous minister
Ali Insanov
Ali Insanov (born March 22, 1946, Lambali, Armenian SSR
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialist ...
replacing him with Ogtay Shiraliyev.
[ Within three months of his term, Shiraliyev reformed the medical services in state hospitals and received 30% increase in state healthcare funding. Construction of new medical diagnostic centers and hospitals in regions of Azerbaijan became a priority.][ On April 23, 2021, he was dismissed as minister.
Shiraliyev headed the ''Eurasia Congress of Infectious Diseases''.
Shiraliyev oversaw the response to the ]COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan
The COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Azerbaijan when its first case was ...
.
References
1950 births
Living people
Politicians from Baku
Government ministers of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani professors
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