The one who was the Minister of Health of the various governments of Edouard Philippe, from 2017 to 2020, will become “master adviser in extraordinary service at the Court of Auditors” from September 1.
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Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health from 2017 to 2020, during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, was appointed master adviser to the Court of Auditors. This is what the Elysée Palace announced on Friday July 29:“Agnès Buzyn, former minister, university professor-hospital practitioner, is appointed master adviser in extraordinary service at the Court of Auditors, from September 1, 2022”declared the Presidency of the Republic in the report of the Council of Ministers.
Agnès Buzyn, a hematologist by profession, had notably directed the National Cancer Institute, before being appointed in 2017 Minister of Health after the election of Emmanuel Macron.
His time at the ministry was marked by a social movement in hospitals as well as the controversy over the end of reimbursement of homeopathy by Health Insurance, a measure in favor of which Agnès Buzyn weighed. She left the Ministry of Health in early 2020 to run for mayor of Paris, replacing the previous majority candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, at the last moment.
The former minister, who later headed the Academy of the World Health Organization (WHO), was indicted at the end of 2021 for “endangering the lives of others” in her management of the Covid-19 epidemic, a decision criticized by part of the political world which fears an excessive legalization of public action.