Vlad Vasile Voiculescu (born 6 September 1983) is a Romanian politician and former Romanian Minister of Health in the

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(affiliated with the

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, PLUS) whose term lasted from 23 December 2020 until he was revoked on 14 April 2021 by PNL

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Florin Cîțu Florin Vasile Cîțu (; born 1 April 1972) is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between December 2020 and November 2021 (acting/ad interim between October and November 2021). Between September 2021 and April 2022, he ...

. He formerly served in the same position in the

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between May 2016 and January 2017.

Career

He was born in Brănești,

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. Voiculescu is known as one of the founders of Magicamp, along with the journalist . Magicamp is a non-profit organisation that offers supportive therapies and financial aid to children diagnosed with cancer and their families. The donations consisted of materials whose value is over 3 million euros. Voiculescu started the "Rețeaua Citostaticelor" (Cytostatics Network), an unofficial mechanism of supplying medications for patients diagnosed with cancer in Romania through parallel proceedings with official methods that are bureaucratic. Those organizations have been the subject of the ''Rețeaua'' (Network) documentary, by Claudiu Mitcu.

Politics

In 2018, Voiculescu co-founded the Mișcarea România Împreună ("Romania Together Movement") organization, a political movement founded by the ex-premier

Dacian Cioloș Dacian Julien Cioloș (; born 27 July 1969) is a Romanian agronomist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from November 2015 to January 2017. He previously served as Agriculture Minister under Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu between October 2007 and ...

. Vlad Voiculescu announced his candidacy in the subsequent 2020 elections for the city hall of Bucharest. In December 2018, he became a member of the

(PLUS). On 1 August 2019 he was designated by PLUS as a candidate for the Bucharest City Hall. On 28 February 2020 he withdrew his candidacy. In December 2020, he was nominated to be part of the Cîțu Government as the Minister of Health. However, after a meeting between the

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and the

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, Voiculescu was removed from his position as Health Minister in 14 April 2021 due to all the scandals surrounding his mandate. Andreea Moldovan, the main Secretary of State of the Health Ministry, who often advised Voiculescu on measures was also removed. Voiculescu was shortly thereafter replaced by

, the then-incumbent PM, as interim Health Minister.

In popular culture

Voiculescu and his handling of the 2016 diluted disinfectants scandal are one of the main focuses of the 2019 documentary ''

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''.

References

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