The US Secretary of Health has become an American with Ukrainian roots
On January 29, the oath of the head of the US Department of Health took 50-year-old Alex Eizar, an American with Ukrainian-Lebanese roots, reports Voice of America.
Donald Trump, Alex Eizar and his family in the White House.
Photo: Instagram / whitehouse
“I am honored to become the 24th Secretary of Health and Human Services today—here in the United States. Only in America can such an opportunity be given to the grandson and great-grandson of immigrants from Lebanon, Ukraine, England and Switzerland,” Eizar noted during the ceremony.
US President Donald Trump entrusts Eizar with very important tasks - to develop a program to overcome the opioid crisis in the country and significantly reduce the cost of medicine for Americans.
Overdose, mainly opioid medication, is the main cause of death in the United States among people under the age of 50 years.
And the prices of prescription drugs in America are two, and sometimes four times higher than prices in other developed countries of the world.
Aizar was born in Pennsylvania. During the presidency of George W. Bush, he served as US Undersecretary of State.
The previous head of the US Department of Health Tom Price resigned in September 2017 after he was convicted of embezzling budget money to pay for charter flights for himself.
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