Ministry of Health (Chile)

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Ministry of Health
Ministerio de Salud de Chile
MINSAL.png
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Ministry headquarters
Agency overview
Formed1959
Preceding agencies
  • • Ministry of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare (1924–1927)
  • • Ministry of Social Welfare (1927–1931)
  • • Ministry of Public Health (1932–1935)
  • • Ministry of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare (1936–1953)
  • • Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (1953–1958)
Type Ministry
Jurisdiction Government of Chile
HeadquartersEnrique Mac Iver 541
Santiago
Employees128,668 (2017) [1]
Ministers responsible
  • Ximena Aguilera, Minister of Health
  • Andrea Albagli, Undersecretary of Public Health
  • Osvaldo Salgado, Undersecretary of Assistance Networks
Child agency
Website Official website (in Spanish)

The Ministry of Health of Chile (Spanish: Ministerio de Salud de Chile), also known as MINSAL, is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of planning, directing, coordinating, executing, controlling and informing the public health policies formulated by the President of Chile. Notably, all employees pay 7% of their monthly income to FONASA, the funding branch of the Chilean Ministry of Health.

Contents

The current Minister of Health is Ximena Aguilera. [2] The minister has two adjuncts: the Undersecretary of Public Health (Spanish : Subsecretaria de Salud Pública) and the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks (Spanish : Subsecretaria de Redes Asistenciales).

History

a FONASA sign. FONASA is the funding branch of the Ministry of Health. Fonasa.jpg
a FONASA sign. FONASA is the funding branch of the Ministry of Health.

In 1808, the Committee of Vaccines (Spanish : Junta de Vacunas) was founded, and then in 1832 the Board of Directors of Hospitals (Spanish : Junta Directiva de Hospitales) began operations. Both organizations were precursors of what would become the modern institutions of public health. In 1907, a division charged with the administration of public hygiene was created under the Ministry of the Interior (Spanish : Ministerio del Interior). Then on 14 October 1924, this division was made into the cabinet-level Ministry of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare (Spanish : Ministerio de Higiene, Asistencia y Previsión Social), with the same function (Decree No. 44, 1924). In 1927 all the ministries underwent an important restructuring; with these change it became the Ministry of Social Welfare (Spanish : Ministerio de Bienestar Social), and was charged with, as well as the coordination of public health policies, the investigation of the application of laws relating to society, public welfare, and social security.[ citation needed ]

In 1932, it was once again renamed, becoming the Ministry of Public Health (Spanish : Ministerio de Salubridad Pública), then the Ministry of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare (Spanish : Ministerio de Salubridad Pública, Asistencia y Previsión Social) in 1936, and later the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (Spanish : Ministerio de Salud Pública y Previsión Social) in 1953.[ citation needed ]

In 1959, the ministry was divided into the Ministry of Public Health (Spanish : Ministerio de Salud Pública), the modern form of the ministry, and, assuming the functions regulating the welfare of Chileans, the Ministry of Work and Social Welfare (Spanish : Ministerio del Trabajo y Previsión Social).

Finally, from 1973 to 1979, the internal structure of the ministry, now simply the Ministry of Health, was reorganized, creating services such as the National Health Fund (Spanish : Fondo Nacional de Salud), or FONASA.[ citation needed ]

Organization

Currently under the Ministry are the following public institutions:

Titulars

Ministers of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
ADelRioS.jpg Alejandro del Río Soto-Aguilar 17 October 192423 January 1925 September Junta
José Santos Salas Morales 29 January 192510 October 1925Appointed by January Junta
Reappointed by Luis Barros Borgoño
Pedro Lautaro Ferrer Rodríguez 10 October 192523 December 1925
Lucio Córdoba Labarca 23 December 192520 November 1926 Emiliano Figueroa
ManuelRivasVicuna.jpg Manuel Rivas Vicuña 20 November 192622 February 1927Minister of the Interior
Isaac Hevia Concha 22 February 192723 May 1927
José Santos Salas Morales 23 May 192717 November 1927 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Ministers of Social Welfare

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
Enrique Balmaceda Toro 17 November 192720 April 1928Interim Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Alejandro Lazo 20 April 19286 June 1928
Luis Schmidt 6 June 192821 June 1928Interim
Luis Carvajal Laurnaga 21 June 19285 August 1930
Humberto Arce 5 August 19305 September 1930
Ricardo Puelma Laval 5 September 193013 July 1931
JEMonteroR.jpg Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez 13 July 193122 July 1931Minister of the Interior and Social Welfare
Héctor Boccardo Benvenuto 22 July 193122 July 1931
Sótero del Río Gundián 26 July 19313 September 1931Appointed by Pedro Opazo
Reappointed by Juan Esteban Montero
Santiago Wilson Barrientos 3 September 193115 November 1931 Manuel Trucco
Sótero del Río Gundián 15 November 19314 June 1932 Juan Esteban Montero

Ministers of Public Health (First Creation)

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
Oscar Cifuentes Solar 5 June 193217 June 1932Appointed by Socialist Junta
Reappointed by Carlos Dávila
Alfonso Quijano Olivares 17 June 19324 October 1932
Javier Castro Oliveira 4 October 193224 December 1932 Abraham Oyanedel
Horacio Hevia Labbé 24 December 19327 May 1933Minister of the Interior and Public Health Arturo Alessandri
Alfredo Piwonka Jilabert 7 May 193319 April 1934Minister of the Interior and Public Health
Luis Salas Romo 19 April 193426 August 1935Minister of the Interior and Public Health
Javier Castro Oliveira 26 August 193515 January 1937

Ministers of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
ECruzCoke.jpg Eduardo Cruz-Coke Lassabe 15 January 193715 September 1938 Arturo Alessandri
Luis Prúnes Rissetti 15 September 193824 December 1938
Miguel Etchebarne.jpg Miguel Etchebarne Rioll 24 December 193825 December 1939 Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Salvador Allende Gossens-.jpg Salvador Allende Gossens 25 December 19392 April 1942
Eduardo Escudero Forrastal 2 April 194215 August 1942 Juan Antonio Rios
Miguel Etchebarne Rioll 15 August 19424 February 1943
Jeronimo Mendez Arancibia.jpg Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia 4 February 19437 June 1943
Sótero del Río Gundián 7 June 19433 February 1946
Juan Garafulic Dubracic 3 February 19466 September 1946
René García Valenzuela 6 September 19463 November 1946
Fernando Claro Salas 3 November 194616 April 1947 Gabriel González Videla
Manuel Sanhueza Morales 16 April 19472 August 1947
José Santos Salas Morales 2 August 19477 July 1948
Guillermo Varas Contreras 7 July 19487 February 1950
Manuel Aguirre Geisse 7 February 195027 February 1950
Jorge Mardones Restat 27 February 195022 July 1952
Sótero del Río Gundián 22 July 19523 November 1952
Waldemar Coutts Billiviller 3 November 19521 April 1953 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Ministers of Public Health and Social Welfare

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
Eugenio Suárez Orrego 1 April 19531 March 1954 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Carlos Vasallo Rojas 1 March 19545 June 1954
Sergio Altamirano Pinto 5 June 19546 January 1955
Jorge Aravena Carrasco 6 January 195530 May 1955
Raúl Barrios Ortiz 30 May 19554 July 1956
Alberto Araya Lampe 4 July 195627 August 1956
Roberto Muñoz Urrutia 27 August 195618 July 1957
Jorge Torreblanca Droguett 18 July 19573 November 1958
Eduardo Gomién Díaz 3 November 195829 October 1959 Jorge Alessandri

Ministers of Public Health (Second Creation)

PictureNameEntered OfficeExited OfficeNotesAppointed by
Sótero del Río Gundián 29 October 195926 August 1961 Jorge Alessandri
Benjamín Cid Quiroz 26 August 196126 September 1963
Francisco Rojas Villegas 26 September 19633 November 1964
Ramón Valdivieso Delaunay 3 November 19643 November 1970 Eduardo Frei Montalva
Oscar Jiménez Pinochet 3 November 197014 August 1971 Salvador Allende
Juan Carlos Concha Gutiérrez 14 August 19713 November 1972
Arturo Jirón Vargas 3 November 197228 August 1973
Mario Lagos Hernández 28 August 197311 September 1973
Alberto Spoerer Covarrubias 12 September 197311 November 1974 Augusto Pinochet
Francisco Herrera 12 November 19747 March 1976
Fernando Matthei.JPG Fernando Matthei 8 March 197623 July 1978
Carlos Jiménez Vargas 24 July 197813 December 1979
Alejandro Medina Lois 14 December 197928 December 1980
Hernán Rivera Calderón 29 December 19809 August 1983
Winston Chinchón Bunting 10 August 198312 August 1986
Juan Giaconi Gandolfo 13 August 198610 March 1990
Jorge Jiménez 11 March 199029 August 1992 Patricio Aylwin
Julio Montt 1965 (cropped).jpg Julio Montt 30 August 199210 April 1994
Carlos Massad Abud.jpg Carlos Massad 11 April 19946 August 1996 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Afigueroam.jpg Álex Figueroa 7 August 199610 March 2000
Portrait Michelle Bachelet.jpg Michelle Bachelet 11 March 20006 February 2002 Ricardo Lagos
Osvaldo Artaza.jpg Osvaldo Artaza 7 February 20022 March 2003
Pedro Garcia (4274959428) (cropped).jpg Pedro García Aspillaga 3 March 200310 March 2006
Doctora soledad barria.jpg María Soledad Barría 11 March 200627 October 2008 Michelle Bachelet
Alvaro Erazo.jpg Álvaro Erazo 28 October 200810 March 2010
JAIME MANALICH 2019.png Jaime Mañalich 11 March 201010 March 2014 Sebastián Piñera
Helia Molina Milman, ministra de salud.jpg Helia Molina 11 March 201422 January 2015 Michelle Bachelet
Carmen Castillo Taucher.jpg Carmen Castillo Taucher 23 January 201511 March 2018
EMILIO SANTELICES.jpg Emilio Santelices 11 March 201812 June 2019 Sebastián Piñera
JAIME MANALICH 2019.png Jaime Mañalich 13 June 201913 June 2020
Ministro de Salud Enrique Paris (2020).jpg Enrique Paris 13 June 202011 March 2022
Ministra Maria Begona Yarza.jpg María Begoña Yarza 11 March 20226 September 2022 Gabriel Boric
Ministra Ximena Aguilera.jpg Ximena Aguilera 6 September 2022Incumbent

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References

  1. http://www.dipres.gob.cl/598/articles-176466_doc_pdf.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
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