Ingush minister for healthcare dismissed

Ingush Leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov dismissed Healthcare Minister Beslan Matiyev and his deputy Magomed Merziyev in Magas yesterday, RIA Novosti reports.

They were dismissed for failure in operating the Jeyrakh District Hospital.

Matiyev was the Healthcare Minister since October 2012. Marem Arapkhanova, Chief Doctor of the Ingush Republican Clinical Hospital, has become the Acting Healthcare Minister of the republic.