Enrique Ona
{{Short description|Filipino surgeon and public servant}}
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| name = Enrique Ona
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| president = Benigno Aquino III
| office = 29th Secretary of Health
| term_start = June 30, 2010
| term_end = December 19, 2014{{Cite web|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/658206/its-final-ona-quits|title = It's final; Ona quits|date = 19 December 2014}}
| predecessor = Esperanza Cabral
| successor = Janette Garin
| president1 = Joseph Estrada
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
| office1 = Executive Director of National Kidney and Transplant Institute
| term_start1 = 1999
| term_end1 = 2010
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| successor1 = Aileen Riego-Javier
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|6|4|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Sagay, Negros Occidental, Commonwealth of the Philippines
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| nationality = Filipino
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| alma_mater = University of the Philippines Manila
| occupation = Surgeon
Government official
| profession = Doctor
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| birth_name = Enrique Tangonan Ona Jr.
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Enrique Tangonan Ona Jr.{{cite web|url=http://www.phikappamu.com/web4/index.php/news/96-upmasball2013|title=PHI brods headline UPMAS Homecoming Ball 2013|publisher=Phi Kappa Mu|date=December 20, 2013|access-date=August 16, 2016}} (born June 4, 1939) is a Filipino surgeon and public servant. He was the Secretary of the Department of Health from 2010 to 2014, succeeding Dr. Esperanza Cabral. Recognized as one of the top surgeons in the field of vascular surgery and organ transplantation, he earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine at the University of the Philippines Manila.
Background
Dr. Ona hails from Pagadian City. He is the son of the first Provincial Health Officer of Zamboanga del Sur.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/gwt/x?site=universal&oe=UTF-8&q=enrique+ona+pagadian&hl=enl&resnum=5&ei=AbE4TNCaJoLslgeng7ayAw&ved=0CBAQFjAE&source=m&rd=1&u=http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId%3D590990%26publicationSubCategoryId%3D63|title=The President's Men and Women: DOH chief to promote reproductive health|publisher=Philstar |date=2010-07-07 |access-date=2010-07-11}} {{dead link|date=November 2012}}
Before being appointed by President Benigno Aquino III to the Health secretary post, Ona was the executive director of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI), the post he held for 11 years{{cite web |url=http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/profile-aquino-s-cabinet-members |title=Profile of Aquino's Cabinet members |publisher=Sunstar |date=2010-07-03 |access-date=2010-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202115852/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/profile-aquino-s-cabinet-members |archive-date=2014-02-02 }} and has been the president of the Transplantation Society of the Philippines since 1989. He also holds a medical license in the state of Massachusetts, United States.
Health Secretary
After being appointed to the Health Department post, president Benigno Aquino III has instructed him "with regard to expediting universal coverage of PhilHealth, which was one of the campaign promises of Aquino considering that health is the third priority in the platform of the Aquino administration."
Awards and recognition
- The Presidential Award of Recognition in Organ Transplantation, Year 2000.
- Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardee for Medicine in 1979.
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Category:Benigno Aquino III administration cabinet members
Category:Filipino people of Japanese descent
Category:People from Negros Occidental
Category:Secretaries of health of the Philippines
Category:University of the Philippines Manila alumni
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