Bartosz Arłukowicz
Bartosz Arłukowicz is a Polish politician, pediatrician, university teacher. He was appointed as Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in 2011, Member of Parliament of VI and VII term, since 2011 the Minister of Health.
Political career
In 2002 Bartosz Arłukowicz received a mandate for a councilor of Szczecin, starting from the list of the coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance - Labour Union as a nonpartisan candidate recommended by the SLD. He chaired the Committee on Health and Social Welfare. In 2004 joined the Polish Social Democratic Party, which ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in the parliamentary elections in 2005, He served as chairman of SDPL in Western Pomerania. During the local elections in 2006, was chief of staff of the electoral Jacek Piechota, He was Democrats candidate for the post of President of Szczecin. In the parliamentary elections of 21 October 2007 he was the 3rd place candidate from the list of Democrats in the region of Szczecin. He obtained a parliamentary seat as the second best result, earning 21 543 votes. In April 2008 he joined the Circle of Deputies SDPL-New Left. In December of the same year left the party and wheels along with two other Members of the grounds of the policy SDPL directed, in their opinion, against the SLD. In March 2009, has been a member of the parliamentary club Left (in September 2010 converted into KP SLD). In June 2009, made a declaration to join the Labour Union, but in contrast to the President of UP says that ultimately became a member of the party. On November 6th 2009 he has been deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee. Examine the legislative Act on games and mutual wagering, whose work lasted until August 2010. On May 10th 2011 he was appointed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the position of Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the plenipotentiary to the Prime Minister. in charge of combating social exclusion. He then joined the Civic Platform parliamentary club. In 2011, he was a candidate in the parliamentary elections of the first places in the list of the election committee of the Civic Platform in the constituency No 41 in Szczecin and obtained a parliamentary seat. He was given 101 746 votes (the most in the region). November 17, 2011, Prime Minister Donald Tusk proposed him take over a seat as Minister of Health. The next day the Democratic Left Alliance deputy was sworn into office. In the spring of 2013 he joined the PO (Civic Platform). On September 22nd 2014 he was appointed Minister of Health in Ewa Kopacz’s government.
Education
Bartosz Arłukowicz graduated from High School in Darłów, and then studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin. He is a second degree specialist in pediatrics. He received an MBA from the University of Szczecin. He passed the state examination for members of the supervisory boards of the Treasury. In 1996-1997, he held an internship at the Szczecin University Hospital No. 2, he worked as a doctor in the Regional Ambulance Service. Since his graduation worked at the Clinic of Children's Diseases, Pomeranian Medical University. Since 1999, ran a private medical practice, which he suspended in May 2011.
