Anvar Alimov becomes Deputy Minister of Health

By the relevant presidential decree, Anvar Alimov, former director of the Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Endocrinology named after Academician Yo.Kh. Turakulov, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Health – head of the Tashkent city health department, the ministerial press service reported.

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Anvar Alimov was born in 1955 in the city of Tashkent. In 1978, he graduated from the Central Asian Pediatric Medical Institute, he is a pediatrician-anesthesiologist, resuscitator.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Anvar Alimov was the Rector of the Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute in 2000-2009, the First Deputy Minister of Health in 2009-2012, and the Minister of Health in 2012-2016.

Since December 2016, he has been working as the director of the Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Endocrinology.

In 2020, he was awarded the honorary title “Honored Healthcare Worker of Uzbekistan”.