Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on Friday appointed Deputy Health Minister Hsueh Jui-yuan (薛瑞元) to replace Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who resigned Thursday to focus on his Taipei mayoral campaign.
By Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerDeputy Minister of Health and Welfare Hsueh Jui-yuan （薛瑞元） is to succeed Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung （陳時中）, who resigned on Thursday to focus on his Taipei mayoral election campaign, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Hsueh Jui-yuan (薛瑞元) is to succeed Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who resigned on Thursday to focus on his Taipei mayoral election campaign, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
Hsueh’s vacancy is to be filled by Hospital and Social Welfare Organizations Administration Commission Director Wang Pi-sheng (王必勝), who is also to take over as head of the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) told a news conference in Taipei, adding that the changes are to take effect on Monday.
CECC specialist advisory panel convener Chang Shan-chwen (張上淳) is to
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) yesterday urged people not to forget the efforts made by COVID-19 prevention personnel in the past more than two years, as his ministry published a book documenting the establishment and operation of the nation’s centralized quarantine facilities.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Hospital and Social Welfare Organizations Administration Commission said Taiwan was the first nation in the world to establish a centralized quarantine facility, in January 2020, in an effort to stop COVID-19 spreading.
As of last month, 63 centralized quarantine facilities had been requisitioned and have accommodated more than 112,000 people, including