Ostapenko Alexander Ivanovich

Ostapenko Alexander Ivanovich

Education

In 1995, he graduated from the Crimean Medical Institute in Simferopol with a degree in medical affairs, in 2008 - the Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration. Ostapenko is a candidate of medical sciences and has the highest qualification category in the specialty "organization and management of healthcare."

Biography

2020: Appointment to the post of head of the Ministry of Health of Crimea

On September 30, 2020, the resignation of Igor Chemodanov from the post of head of the Crimean Ministry of Health was announced. His place was taken by Alexander Ostapenko, who since October 2016 has been the head of the Semashko Hospital in Simferopol. About this on his page on the social network "VKontakte" said the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov.

Earlier, Aksyonov criticized the activities of Chemodanov. The head of the republic, among other things, had complaints that the ministry did not respond to complaints from citizens about medical care. In recent days alone, 33 such appeals have been received, he said on September 30, 2020. According to Aksenov, this is "in its pure form an underperformance of officials," including on issues of referral, routing and delivery of patients.

We have a large number of complaints coming through social networks, "Aksyonov said during today's meeting of the operational headquarters. - People complain about refusals for hospitalization, about negligence of staff in medical institutions. They describe different situations. Action must be taken.

According to the authorities, on September 29, 2020, 90 cases of COVID-19 were registered in Crimea, half of them in Simferopol. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,564 cases of new infection have been identified in the republic, 66 patients have died.

By the end of September 2020, an official investigation is underway in the republican Ministry of Health due to the death of two people who were sick with pneumonia and whom doctors refused to hospitalize.^[1]

2021: Resignation as Minister of Health

On September 29, 2021, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, announced the resignation of the Minister of Health of the region, Alexander Ostapenko, who held this post for a little less than a year. Since the peninsula became part of Russia, the dismissal of the head of the local Ministry of Health has become the sixth.

At the end of September 2021, Konstantin Viktorovich Skorupsky, chief doctor of the Sudak city hospital, was appointed acting Minister of Health of Crimea. According to the established procedure, his candidacy will be submitted for approval to the Ministry of Health of Russia.

Crimean Minister of Health Alexander Ostapenko resigned

Alexander Ostapenko on his Facebook page commented on his resignation from the post of head of the Ministry of Health of Crimea:

I always said and I will say that everything that we did was excellent and immaculate - you did it. All that we did more or less demolitively - we did it together, and all that we did badly - I did it.

In social networks in the comments on Sergey Aksenov's posts on Ostapenko's resignation, users express dissatisfaction with the "failure" in the purchase of medicines for preferential groups of the population, and also talk about queues in local clinics.

In early July 2021, residents of Crimea began to complain about interruptions in the work of vaccination centers. Ostapenko acknowledged the presence of failures in the supply of the first component of the vaccine, promised to rectify the situation, but said that the same problems exist in other regions. After that, the Ministry of Health of Crimea redistributed supplies between points and ordered additional doses. According to data as of mid-September 2021, more than 500 thousand people were vaccinated in Crimea.

The possibility of the resignation of the head of the Crimean Ministry of Health was reported by local media. So, the publication ForPost noted that the director of the Crimean Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Medicine Sergey Olefirenko could become the new head of the ministry.

Alexander Ostapenko continued a series of resignations in the Crimean government - the head of the Ministry of Transport was previously dismissed, and the ex-Minister of Construction and the former Deputy Prime Minister became defendants in the criminal case.^[2]

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