Former Health Minister appointed Governor of Grodno Oblast
<p> MINSK, Aug 24 - PrimePress. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has appointed former Health Minister Vladimir Karanik chairman of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee. The president announced this on August 22 at the meeting with members of the oblast council. </p> <p> </p> <p> The council voted in support of this appointment, the presidential press office reports. “I decided to send your man to you–Vladimir Stepanovich Karanik. He will be missed much, because he proved to be a hero during this time of the coronavirus. If not for him, we would have lots of troubles. He was the chief assistant to the president on all issues, the first general who executed my instructions. And we did the right thing,” Lukashenko said. </p> <p> </p> <p> Karanik was born in 1973 in Grodno; graduated from the Grodno State Medical Institute in 1996; worked at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Oncology and Medical Radiology until 2011; chief physician of the Minsk City Clinical Oncological Dispensary in 2011-2019; health minister since June 11, 2019. In the ministerial capacity, he firmly abided by Lukashenko’s COVID-19 response policy: no quarantine, no ban on mass events, and heavily redacted information on the epidemic in the country. As a result, Belarus became one of the Europe’s leaders in terms of COVID-19 incidence per capita. End </p>
2020-08-24
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Former Health Minister appointed Governor of Grodno Oblast
MINSK, Aug 24 - PrimePress. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has appointed former Health Minister Vladimir Karanik chairman of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee. The president announced this on August 22 at the meeting with members of the oblast council.
The council voted in support of this appointment, the presidential press office reports. “I decided to send your man to you–Vladimir Stepanovich Karanik. He will be missed much, because he proved to be a hero during this time of the coronavirus. If not for him, we would have lots of troubles. He was the chief assistant to the president on all issues, the first general who executed my instructions. And we did the right thing,” Lukashenko said.
Karanik was born in 1973 in Grodno; graduated from the Grodno State Medical Institute in 1996; worked at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center of Oncology and Medical Radiology until 2011; chief physician of the Minsk City Clinical Oncological Dispensary in 2011-2019; health minister since June 11, 2019. In the ministerial capacity, he firmly abided by Lukashenko’s COVID-19 response policy: no quarantine, no ban on mass events, and heavily redacted information on the epidemic in the country. As a result, Belarus became one of the Europe’s leaders in terms of COVID-19 incidence per capita. End