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Naima Makhmudovna Makhmudova (10 August 1928, Tashkent - 7 June 2017) was a soviet uzbek physician, state and public figure. Deputy of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 10th and 11th convocations (1979-1989).

Biography
Naima Makhmudova was born on 10 August 1928 in Tashkent, in the family of uzbek poet Batu (Mahmud Khodiev).

In 1951 she graduated from the Tashkent Medical Institute.

Until 1958, she worked as chief medical officer of Urgut District Sanitary Epidemiological Station, then, from 1958 to 1963, as chief medical officer of Samarkand Regional Sanitary Epidemiological Station. In 1963 she moved to Tashkent with her family.

In 1963-1971 she was Deputy Minister of Health of the Uzbek SSR. In 1971-1977 - Deputy Chairman of the Uzbek Council of Trade Unions. In 1977-1986 - Chairman of the Uzbek Council of Trade Unions.

She was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR twice and twice more - a deputy of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 10-11 convocations (1979-1989) from the Karakalpak ASSR. She held the position of chairman of the Health Commission of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. She was a member of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Uzbek Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Committee of Soviet Women.

In 1968, she defended her PhD thesis on "Historical development of therapy in Uzbekistan". In 1975, she defended her doctoral thesis on "Organization of medical rehabilitation and social adaptation of patients with infantile cerebral palsy in Uzbekistan". In 1986, she was awarded the title of professor.

In 1986-2000, she headed the Department of Social Hygiene (since 1997, the Department of General Hygiene, Social Hygiene and Health Care Organization) at the Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute. Then she was a consulting professor of this department.