Davit Sergeenko
დავით სერგეენკო
Adviser to the Prime minister of Georgia
Assumed office
8 September 2019
Prime MinisterGiorgi Gakharia
In office
18 June 2019  3 September 2019
Prime MinisterMamuka Bakhtadze
Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Health, Labour and Social Affairs
In office
14 July 2018  18 June 2019
PresidentGiorgi Margvelashvili
Salome Zourabichvili
Prime MinisterMamuka Bakhtadze
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byEkaterine Tikaradze
Minister of Health, Labour, and Social Affairs
In office
25 October 2012  14 July 2018
Prime MinisterBidzina Ivanishvili
Irakli Garibashvili
Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Mamuka Bakhtadze
Preceded byZurab Tchiaberashvili
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born (1963-09-25) 25 September 1963
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
(Now Georgia)
Political partyGeorgian Dream
SpouseLeila Migriauli
ChildrenTwo daughters
Alma materTbilisi State Medical Institute
Moscow Institute for Continued Medical Education
Military service
Allegiance Georgia
Branch/serviceMedical Service, Georgian Air Force
Years of service1992–1993

Davit Sergeenko (Georgian: დავით სერგეენკო; born 25 September 1963) is a Georgian physician and healthcare administrator, serving as Georgia's Minister of Health, Labor, and Social Affairs since 25 October 2012. On 13 June 2018 he was named Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees in the cabinet of Mamuka Bakhtadze.[1]

Early life and medical career

Sergeenko was born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia in 1963. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Medical Institute as a pediatrician in 1987 and the Moscow Institute for Continued Medical Education as an intensive care specialist in 1991. Returning to Georgia, he practiced neonatology in Sukhumi and Rustavi from 1987 to 1992. He then served in the Georgian Armed Forces as a physician for an air force regiment from 1992 to 1993 and as a chief of medical service at the State Department of Sports from 1995 to 1997. He worked as an ICU physician at the Jo Ann Medical Center in Tbilisi from 1997 to 2006 and a medical services manager at the MediClub-Georgia clinic from 2002 to 2006.[2] In 2006, he became Director General of a medical center in the provincial town of Sachkhere, funded by the billionaire tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Sachkhere native who had amassed his wealth in Russia in the 1990s.[3]

Government career

After Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition won the October 2012 parliamentary election and subsequently formed the new government, Sergeenko was made Minister of Health, Labor, and Social Affairs in the cabinets of Ivanishvili and of his protégé and successor, Irakli Garibashvili.[4]

Sergeenko presided over the establishment of the government-funded Universal Health Care system in February 2013.[5] As the Georgian government's support to post-revolutionary Ukraine amid a brewing confrontation with Russia was reserved, Sergeenko was the only Georgian minister to have visited Kyiv in August 2014; he then oversaw Georgia's humanitarian aid, worth of about GEL 1 million (US$570,000), to Ukraine in September 2014.[6][7] Sergeenko was also behind the controversial law adopted in August 2014, tightening the regulation of prescription drugs.[8] He also suggested, in May 2013, that Georgia might consider decriminalization of marijuana as part of the strategy to tackle on illicit drug-trafficking channels.[9]

References

  1. "დავით სერგეენკო". MOH (in Georgian). Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  2. "Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia: David Sergeenko". Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  3. "Ivanishvili's Incoming Cabinet". Civil Georgia. 16 October 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  4. "New PM Wins Confidence Vote". Civil Georgia. 20 November 2013. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  5. "Irakli Gharibashvili: "Health care has become accessible for everyone."". FactCheck. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  6. Jgharkava, Zaza (4 September 2014). "Georgian Government Shows Ukraine Two Faces". Georgia Today. No. 731. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  7. "Georgia Sends Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine". Civil Georgia. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  8. "Georgia tightens regulation of prescription drugs". Democracy & Freedom Watch. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  9. Rukhadze, Okropir; Synovitz, Ron (20 May 2013). "Georgia Considers Taking Softer Approach To Marijuana". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
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