Irkutsk Region Governor Sergei Levchenko signed a decree appointing Oleg Yaroshenko as the regions health minister. The article gives a detailed background on his education, military service, and many years of experience in senior healthcare posts.
Governor of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Levchenko signed a Decree appointing Oleg Yaroshenko as Minister of Health of the Irkutsk Region.Reference: Oleg Yaroshenko was born on January 17, 1965, in the urban-type settlement of Kozelshchina, Poltava Region. He graduated from the feldsher department of the Kremenchug Medical School (with honors), the Kharkiv State Pharmaceutical Institute, the military medical faculty at the Tomsk Medical Institute; the S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, faculty of command staff; and the Advanced Academic Courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
From 1984 to 1986, he served in the Soviet Army as a military feldsher. From 1991 to 2009, he served in the Armed Forces of Russia in officer positions. He completed his service with the rank of colonel of the medical service as head of a department of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Since 2009 to the present, he has worked in senior positions in the Ministry of Health of the Irkutsk Region, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia, Rostec State Corporation, and the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Scientific Center for Expertise of Medical Products” of the Russian Ministry of Health.