Department of Health

Department of Health of the Republic of China (Traditional Chinese: 衛生署 Pinyin: Wèishēng Shǔ) is an executive agency of the Executive Yuan responsible for the administration of the public health system, affordable and universal health care, hospitals, pharmaceutical, immunisation programmes, disease prevention, supervision and coordination of local health agencies in Taiwan. The Minister for Health is the political head of the Department of Healt... More

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