Ministry of Health - Jordan

Foundation The Ministry of Health was established in 1921, and in 1926 the first law was issued to organize health affairs, and this situation continued until 1939, when the Health Department joined the Ministry of Interior until an independent Ministry of Health was established in 1950 under the name of the Ministry of Health. In 1966, Public Health Law No. (43) was issued and it was amended by virtue of Public Health Law (No. 21 of 1971), where the latter was amended several times until Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008 was issued, according to which the Ministry regulates health matters in the Kingdom. Health in the era of the emirate We provide this quick overview of the health situation before the establishment of the emirate so that we can infer and quote the health and medical development in the period from 1921 to 1946. The first health advisor, the late Mazhar Pasha Arslan, in 1921. The first director of health, Dr. Reda Tawfiq, in 1921. The first government hospital was e...