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BIODATA
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BUNWAREE |
| Other Names: |
Vasant Kumar |
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Married, Five children |
| Primary Education: |
Rivière du Rempart Government School (Standard I to IV)
Champ de Lort Government School, Port Louis (Standard V-VI) |
| Secondary Education: |
Royal College, Port Louis, Mauritius |
| Tertiary Eductaion: |
University of Bordeaux II, FRANCE |
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1977: Medical Doctor: “Docteur en Medicine” |
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1977: Diploma: Tropical Medicine |
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1981: Diploma: Human Cytogenetics |
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1981: Cardiologist: Certificat d’Edudes spéciales en maladies cardiovasculaires |
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
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Manager/Principal of a private secondary institution ("College Idéal”), Rivière du Rempart, Mauritius (1967-1969).
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Medical Experience in France
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- Internship (1977): Hospitals of Bordeaux and Libourne
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- “Attaché de Cardiologie” (1978-1981): Haut Levêque Hospital, Bordeaux, Pessac
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- Industrial Medicine Unit : Association d’Hygiène Industrielle de la Gironde
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- Special Training in Cardiac Catherisation and Coronary Angiography and dilatation techniques at the “Centre Hospitalier Régional de Bordeaux, Hôpital du Haut Levêque (March to September 1985).
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Participated in the training of 1st and 2nd year medical students as “Moniteur” at the University of Bordeaux 1974 to 1981.
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Training of Nursing Students at Centre Hospitalier Régional – Bordeaux.
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Appointed in 1982 as Specialist Cardiology of the Ministry of Health and was the first Cardiologist to join the Ministry of Health; was posted to Cardiac Unit, Victoria Hospital, Candos.
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In December 1985, had the responsibility for the setting up of a full-fledged Cardiac Unit and ICU at the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam National Hospital in view of starting a permanent cardiac surgery centre in Mauritius.
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SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:
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Founder Member of the Mauritius Heart Foundation. Assumed its presidence between 1984 and 1996.
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Founder Member of Hassan Raffa Heart Foundation (Mauritius) 1986-1995. Assumed its presidence between 1986-1995.
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POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:
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Member of the National Assembly. Elected in the constituency of Mahebourg-Plaine Magnien at the General Elections in 1987, 1991, 1995 and 2005.
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Member of Public Accounts Committee (1993-1994).
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Minister of Finance (November 1996 – September 2000).
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Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations & Employment as from 8 July 2005 – 13 September 2008)
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Minister of Education, Culture and Human Resources as from 13 September
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Secretary General of the Mauritius Labour Party (February 2002 – March 2005); Vice President (March 2005 – to date); Member of the Central Executive Committee and Politburo.
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| Ministerial Address: |
Level 3, IVTB House, Pont Fer, Phoenix |
| Telephone Office: |
(+230) 6977862; (+230) 6862402 |
| Fax: |
(+230) 6863601 |
