President Park Geun-hye presented letters of appointment to the new health minister and the new chief of South Korea's human rights watchdog, Cheong Wa Dae said Monday.
  

The ceremony took place six days after Chung Chin-youb, a professor at Seoul National University hospital, won parliamentary approval as the new health minister.
  

The Health Ministry was under fire for its poor response to the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, which has killed 36 South Koreans.
  

On July 28, South Korea declared a de facto end to the outbreak of the MERS virus.
  

Also on Monday, Park also gave an appointment letter to Lee Seong-ho, the new chief of the National Human Rights Commission, the presidential office said. Lee served as a judge for about 30 years before being nominated in July as the new chief of the country's human rights watchdog. (Yonhap)