Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar)

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Ministry of Health and Sports
ကျန်းမာရေးနှင့်အားကစားဝန်ကြီးဌာန
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Government overview
Formed25 May 2016 (2016-05-25)
Preceding agencies
Dissolved1 August 2021
Jurisdiction Government of Myanmar
HeadquartersOffice No (4), Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Minister responsible
Government executives
  • Myo Hlaing, Deputy Minister
  • Dr Aye Tun, Deputy Minister
Website www.mohs.gov.mm

Ministry of Health and Sports regroups the two following ministries: Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports.In 2016, President Htin Kyaw dissolved the Ministry of Sports (Myanmar) and organized it under the Ministry of Health. On 25 May 2016, under Htin Kyaw's Government, it was renamed to Ministry of Health and Sports, regrouping both ministries in one governing body. [1]

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On 1 August 2021, the SAC reconstituted the Ministry of Health and Sports as Ministry of Health and Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. [2] [3]

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References

  1. http://www.president-office.gov.mm/en/?q=briefing-room/news/2016/05/26/id-6347
  2. "Order No 151/2021, State Administration Council, Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar . MNA. 2 August 2021. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  3. "စစ်ကိုင်း၊ တနင်္သာရီနှင့် ဧရာဝတီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌများအား တာဝန်မှ အနားယူခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအချို့ကို ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း".