István Mikola

István Mikola (1947, Veszprém) M.D., graduated from Semmelweis University of Medicine at Budapest in 1972. He passed degrees in studied internal medicine and infectology. In 1991 he pursued postgradual studies in health and hospital management in the United States and Canada. In 1991–93 he was Government Commissioner for the Hungarian social security system. He became a member of Parliament in 1998 on behalf of the Christian Democratic Party. He was Minister of Health in 2000–2002, Deputy Chairman of the Health Committee of Parliament in in 2002–2010, and Chairman since 2010.

THE HUNGARIAN PATIENT

István Mikola, is chairman of the Health Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, and was Minister of Health in the first Fidesz government from 2000 to 2002. This conversation took place during a break in a conference entitled “The rebirth of birth”, organized by the Semmelweis Movement at the Hungarian Academy

2011.01.10.

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