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Ukraine's Health Minister - Ulana Suprun

Can Ukraine's ailing health system undergo a radical reformation? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s Health Minister, Ulana Suprun.

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s Health Minister, Ulana Suprun. Four years after the Maidan revolution, Ukraine is a country of unfulfilled expectations. Huge external pressures remain - not least Moscow's hostility - but many of the problems are internal; stalled reforms, political in-fighting and endemic corruption. Ulana Suprun, a Ukrainian-American doctor, is now the country’s health minister trying to drive through big reform of the healthcare system. It's a hugely symbolic test - can she deliver?

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