ANUBUMANI RAMADAS

                                                                       ANUBUMANI             

                                               Born: 9 October 1968 (age 55 years),Tindivanam

Party: Pattali Makkal Katchi

Previous office: Member of the Lok Sabha (2014–2019)

Spouse: Sowmiya Ramadoss (m. 1991)

Education: London School of Economics and Political Science (2003) · View more

Children: Sanjuthra Ramadoss, Sangamithra Ramadoss, Samyuktha Ramadoss

Parents: S. Ramadoss, Shrimati R. Saraswathi

                                                     EDUCATION

 Anbumani completed his SSLC from Montfort Boys Higher Secondary School, Yercaud in 1984 and finished his higher secondary in 1986 from St. Ann's Higher Secondary School, Tindivanam. He completed his MBBS from Madras Medical College.  

                                                         HISTORY

His father was a physician by profession and founded the Pattali Makkal Katchi political party in 1989. Anbumani completed his SSLC from Montfort Boys Higher Secondary School, Yercaud in 1984 and finished his higher secondary in 1986 from St. Ann's Higher Secondary School, Tindivanam.

On 22 May 2004, Anbumani became as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India. At the time of induction into the Manmohan Singh's 2004 cabinet, Anbumani was the youngest Cabinet Minister in the Union Cabinet. During his tenure, the ministry set up various institutions like the Public Health Foundation of India, Department of Health Research, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India and the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library. As the Union Health Minister, Anbumani established the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 to provide primary health care to the women and children living in the rural parts of India. The project was lauded as 'the largest successful health scheme to be implemented anywhere in the world' by economist Jeffrey Sachs.^[5][6]