In accordance with the presidential decree, Bakhodir Yusupaliyev has become Deputy Minister of Health – head of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Wellbeing and Public Health Service.

Prior to his appointment, Yusupaliyev worked as the First Deputy Minister of Health.

It should be recalled that according to the presidential decree, the Agency for Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing under the Ministry of Health and the State Inspectorate for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance under the Cabinet of Ministers were terminated.

Later, Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the resolution “On measures to organize activities of the sanitary and epidemiological wellbeing and public health service of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

The document identified the main tasks and directions of activity of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Wellbeing and Public Health Service.