Ministry of Health (Chile)

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Ministry of Health
Ministerio de Salud de Chile

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)
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment 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
WebsiteOfficial 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.

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).

  1. ^ http://www.dipres.gob.cl/598/articles-176466_doc_pdf.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "Gobierno de Chile: Ministerio de Salud". www.gob.cl. 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.