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Adham Baba

MY

Minister of Health in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin since March 2020 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tenggara since May 2018 and from March 2004 to March 2008

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Successful People in Malaysia (3rd Edition)

December 2021

E - EDUCATION

Graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) degree from the University of Malaya in 1987

CA - CAREER

Served as a medical officer in the Ministry of Health from 1988 to 1990. In the same year, Adham began his first career as a medical doctor in the private sector in 1990 and has so to the present. He has a private clinic called Klinik Adham Sdn Bhd with 18 branches; Also held several senior positions in government-related companies including the University of Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) Pro-Chancellor from 2013 to 2018.[2] In addition, he had been the Chairman of UniKL Medical Services Sdn Bhd. from 2010 to 2015; first became involved in politics in 1991 with the post of UMNO Committee Member for Senai Division. After that, he began to hold an important portfolio in the ministry. Among them, Special Education Officer in the Ministry of Youth and Sports from 2000 to 2004; In 2004, elected as Member of Parliament for Tenggara; Appointed as Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education until 2008; Elected as the State Assembly Member for Pasir Raja; The assemblyman of the constituency until 2018; Contested for the Tenggara parliamentary seat in the 14th general election and won; 9 March 2020, Appointed as the Minister of Health by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Muhammad Yassin - the appointment is made as the country faces COVID-19 disease

AW - AWARDS

Malacca : MY-MAL Exalted Order of Malacca.svg Companion Class I of the Order of Malacca (DMSM) - Datuk (2003); Pahang : MY-PAH Order of the Crown of Pahang - Grand Knight - SIMP.svg Grand Knight of the Order of the Crown of Pahang (SIMP) - Dato' Indera (2013) MY-PAH Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang - Grand Knight- SSAP.svg Grand Knight of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (SSAP) - Dato' Sri (2016)

WEB - WEBSITE

www.pmo.gov.my/

B - BORN

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MS - MARITAL STATUS

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