Parliament dismisses Yemets as health minister

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has dismissed Ilya Yemets from the post of health minister.

A total of 271 MPs voted in favor of a relevant decision at an extraordinary parliamentary meeting on March 30, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

Yemets was appointed to the post of health minister on March 4, 2020. Prior to that, he headed the Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

Yemets already headed the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in 2010-2011.

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