Andreas Xanthos
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Andreas Xanthos MP |
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| Ανδρέας Ξάνθου | |
| Minister of Health | |
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Assumed office 23 September 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| Preceded by | Athanasios Dimopoulos |
| Alternate Minister of Health | |
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In office 27 January 2015 – 28 August 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Rethymno |
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Assumed office 6 May 2012 |
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| Personal details | |
| Political party | Syriza |
| Profession | Microbiologist |
Andreas Xanthos is a Greek medical doctor and politician who is currently the Minister of Health in the Second Tsipras Cabinet and a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Rethymno on Crete. He previously served as an Alternate Minister of Health in the First Tsipras Cabinet and is a member of the Central Committee of Syriza.
Xanthos graduated from the medical school of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Xanthos specialises in microbiology and worked as a national health service doctor at the health centres in Perama and in Rethymno. He was, for several years, chairman of the doctors' union in Rethymno and also a member of the General Council of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors (OENGE) and the General Assembly of the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS).
Xanthos took an active role in the establishment of a Voluntary Social Solidarity Clinic in Rethymno in 2008.
Xanthos is a member of the Central Committee of Syriza. He was first elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Rethymno, Crete, in the May 2012 legislative election and was subsequently reelected in June 2012, January 2015 and September 2015.
In January 2015, Xanthos was appointed as an Alternate Minister of Health in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. In April, he claimed between 2.5 and 3 million people are "lost in the bureaucracy of a National Health System" and announced plans to cover uninsured Greeks.
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