Ulana Suprun / Photo from UNIAN

A petition released on the presidential website on the reinstatement of Ulana Suprun as head of the Health Ministry has gained the required number of votes, namely 25,000.

As of Monday morning, March 30, a total of 25,974 people supported the proposal.

Now Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is supposed to respond to the petition initially published on March 23.

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The author, Olena Losyk, believes it's the expert of such level that Ukraine needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Now, amid a threatening challenge, we must demand that the authorities put Ulana Suprun back in the minister's chair," the document says.

As UNIAN reported earlier, during the meeting on September 4, 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed Acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun.