Richard Raši
| Richard Raši | |
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| Mayor of Košice | |
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Assumed office 21 December 2010 |
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| Preceded by | František Knapík |
| Minister of Health in Slovakia | |
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In office 3 June 2008 – 8 June 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Robert Fico |
| Preceded by | Ivan Valentovič |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Uhliarik |
| Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic | |
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Assumed office 8 June 2010 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 April 1971 Košice, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party | Direction – Social Democracy |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik |
Richard Raši (born 2 April 1971) is a Slovak physician and politician for the Direction – Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia) and since 21 December 2010, the Mayor of the city of Košice. He also served from 3 June 2008 until 8 June 2010 as Minister of Health in the First cabinet of Robert Fico.
Born 2 April 1971 in Kosice. Raši studied medicine at the Medical faculty at the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik from 1989, receiving his medical degree in 1995. After specializing as a trauma surgeon he received his masters degree in the field of public health at the Slovak Medical University in 2004, six years later he received his PhD degree in the same field at Technical University of Košice.
Immediately after graduation, he started work as a trauma surgeon intern at the University Hospital of L. Pasteur in Kosice. By 2004, he had been promoted to Vice-director of that hospitals clinic of traumatology. From 2007 he worked as the head of the Bratislava Faculty Hospital, until 2008, when he was appointed Minister of Health. In between the years, Rasi spent several months on internships abroad, working in the United States, Sweden and Switzerland among others.
Raši was appointed as Minister of Health on 3 June 2008, by president Ivan Gasparovic. This happened the same day as his predecessor Ivan Valentovič resigned. Valentovič had long been under severe pressure to resign over his handling of the controversial health insurance reform as well as the general state of the Slovak health system. His relationship with the president had been strained, and in the end, it was speculated that the prime minister Robert Fico had in fact fired him, although this was denied by Fico.
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