Saeed Namaki

Saeed Namaki (Persian: سعید نمکی‎) is an Iranian politician and pharmacist. He has served as minister of Health and Medical Education since 3 January 2019. where he replaced Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi. He has previously served as the vice-president in Plan and Budget Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (PBO).

2020 COVID-19 outbreak

During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran, Saeed Namaki held a special parliamentary session on 25 February 2020 which included parliamentarian Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, who had claimed a day earlier that Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) COVID-19 death statistics were vastly underestimated, with 50 deaths in Qom rather than the official count of 12 deaths in the whole of Iran. Staff testing body temperatures prior to the meeting requested Amirabadi Farahani and two other members of parliament to excuse themselves from the meeting and self-quarantine. All three declined the request and participated in the meeting with Saeed Namaki.