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The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation is responsible for health care and public health across Russia. Its duties include developing state health policy, overseeing pharmaceuticals, managing health insurance, controlling infectious diseases, licensing drugs, and running federal medical facilities.
The current Ministry of Health of Russia was formed on the 22nd of May 2012, when the Ministry of Health and Social Development was divided into two separate ministries under Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The split created the Ministry of Health of Russia and the Ministry of Labor of Russia.
Mikhail Murashko has been Minister of Health of the Russian Federation since the 21st of January 2020.
The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation is headquartered in the Tverskoy District of Moscow.
In 1992, following the collapse of the USSR, the Ministry of Health of the USSR was liquidated. The Ministry of Health of the RSFSR was then transformed into the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
By Decree No. 314 of the 9th of March 2004, the Ministry of Health was abolished and replaced by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. That combined ministry later split back into two in 2012.