Deputy Minister of Health appointed

By presidential resolution, Alisher Shukrullayevich Boboyev has been appointed First Deputy Minister of Health, the ministry’s press service reported.

Before his appointment, Alisher Boboyev served as head of the Kashkadarya Regional Health Department. He graduated from the Tashkent State Medical Institute in 1996 and later completed a clinical residency program at the same institution. He began his career in 1998 as a senior laboratory assistant at the institute.

Over the years, Boboyev has held various positions, including senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Medical Biological Sciences of the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute, doctor-urologist at the Urology Department of the Republican Clinical Hospital, specialist at the Consultative and Diagnostic Polyclinic of the Republican Clinical Hospital No. 1, and chief specialist at the Secretariat of the Ministry of Health. He was awarded the Order of Health, 2nd degree.

It is worth noting that in May of this year, during a videoconference chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the next stage of medical sector reforms, Davron Sultanov was dismissed from this position.

Sultanov had been appointed in January 2024 after then–First Deputy Minister of Health Alisher Shodmonov went on long-term medical leave.