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'{{Infobox Officeholder | name = Enrique T. Ona | image = | imagesize = 250px | smallimage = | caption = |- | order = | president = [[Benigno Aquino III]] | office = [[Secretary of Health (Philippines)|Secretary of the Philippine Department of Health]] | term_start = June 30, 2010 | term_end = | president1 = [[Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]] | office1 = Executive Director of [[National Kidney and Transplant Institute]] | term_start1 = 1999 | term_end1 = 2010 | succeeding1 = | predecessor = | successor = Aileen Riego-Javier |- | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Filipino | party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = [[University of the Philippines]] | occupation = [[Surgeon]]<br>[[Government official]] | profession = Doctor | religion = Roman Catholic | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Dr. Enrique T. Ona''' is a Filipino surgeon and public servant. He is the current Secretary of the Department of Health, 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]]. ==Background== Dr. Ona hails from [[Pagadian City]], Zamboanga del Sur. He is the son of the first Provincial Health Officer of Zamboanga del Sur.<ref name="Philstar">{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/gwt/x?site=universal&oe=UTF-8&q=enrique+ona+pagadian&hl=fil&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 |accessdate=2010-07-11}}{{dead link|date=November 2012}}</ref> 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]] (KNTI), the post he held for 11 years<ref name="sunstar1">{{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 |accessdate=2010-07-09}}</ref> 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."<ref name="sunstar1"/> ==Awards and Recognition== *The Presidential Award of Recognition in Organ Transplantation, Year 2000. *Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) awardee for Medicine in 1979. ==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{succession box | before= [[Esperanza Cabral]] | title= Philippine Secretary of Health| years= 2010 &ndash; Present| after= '''Incumbent'''| }} {{s-end}} {{Aquino Cabinet}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Ona, Enrique | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Filipino politician | DATE OF BIRTH = | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ona, Enrique}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Filipino people of Japanese descent]] [[Category:Members of the Cabinet of the Philippines]] [[Category:Politicians of Japanese descent]] {{Philippines-politician-stub}}'