OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dr. Lance Frye, Oklahoma’s former state well being commissioner, has been appointed surgeon basic of the Muscogee Nation, the tribe introduced Tuesday.
Muscogee Nation Principal Chief David Hill and tribal Secretary of Well being Shawn Terry mentioned Frye could be the tribe’s first-ever surgeon basic.
“Simply as the USA Surgeon Normal focuses on urgent public well being challenges at a nationwide stage, Surgeon Normal Frye will concentrate on combating the general public well being challenges we face right here at house,” Hill mentioned in a press release.
Frye, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and senior medical officer for the Oklahoma Nationwide Guard, led the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic earlier than abruptly resigning as state well being commissioner in October.
His resignation got here a day after Gov. Kevin Stitt and different state Republican leaders expressed outrage upon studying the well being division had issued a beginning certificates with a nonbinary gender designation.
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