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).

History

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.

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.

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.

Organization

Currently under the Ministry are the following public institutions:

Titulars

Ministers of Hygiene, Social Assistance and Welfare

Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by
Alejandro del Río Soto-Aguilar 17 October 1924 23 January 1925 September Junta
José Santos Salas Morales 29 January 1925 10 October 1925 Appointed by January Junta
Reappointed by Luis Barros Borgoño
Pedro Lautaro Ferrer Rodríguez 10 October 1925 23 December 1925
Lucio Córdoba Labarca 23 December 1925 20 November 1926 Emiliano Figueroa
Manuel Rivas Vicuña 20 November 1926 22 February 1927 Minister of the Interior
Isaac Hevia Concha 22 February 1927 23 May 1927
José Santos Salas Morales 23 May 1927 17 November 1927 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Ministers of Social Welfare

Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by
Enrique Balmaceda Toro 17 November 1927 20 April 1928 Interim Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Alejandro Lazo 20 April 1928 6 June 1928
Luis Schmidt 6 June 1928 21 June 1928 Interim
Luis Carvajal Laurnaga 21 June 1928 5 August 1930
Humberto Arce 5 August 1930 5 September 1930
Ricardo Puelma Laval 5 September 1930 13 July 1931
Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez 13 July 1931 22 July 1931 Minister of the Interior and Social Welfare
Héctor Boccardo Benvenuto 22 July 1931 22 July 1931
Sótero del Río Gundián 26 July 1931 3 September 1931 Appointed by Pedro Opazo
Reappointed by Juan Esteban Montero
Santiago Wilson Barrientos 3 September 1931 15 November 1931 Manuel Trucco
Sótero del Río Gundián 15 November 1931 4 June 1932 Juan Esteban Montero

Ministers of Public Health (First Creation)

Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by
Oscar Cifuentes Solar 5 June 1932 17 June 1932 Appointed by Socialist Junta
Reappointed by Carlos Dávila
Alfonso Quijano Olivares 17 June 1932 4 October 1932
Javier Castro Oliveira 4 October 1932 24 December 1932 Abraham Oyanedel
Horacio Hevia Labbé 24 December 1932 7 May 1933 Minister of the Interior and Public Health Arturo Alessandri
Alfredo Piwonka Jilabert 7 May 1933 19 April 1934 Minister of the Interior and Public Health
Luis Salas Romo 19 April 1934 26 August 1935 Minister of the Interior and Public Health
Javier Castro Oliveira 26 August 1935 15 January 1937

Ministers of Public Health, Social Assistance and Welfare

Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by
Eduardo Cruz-Coke Lassabe 15 January 1937 15 September 1938 Arturo Alessandri
Luis Prúnes Rissetti 15 September 1938 24 December 1938
Miguel Etchebarne Rioll 24 December 1938 25 December 1939 Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Salvador Allende Gossens 25 December 1939 2 April 1942
Eduardo Escudero Forrastal 2 April 1942 15 August 1942 Juan Antonio Rios
Miguel Etchebarne Rioll 15 August 1942 4 February 1943
Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia 4 February 1943 7 June 1943
Sótero del Río Gundián 7 June 1943 3 February 1946
Juan Garafulic Dubracic 3 February 1946 6 September 1946
René García Valenzuela 6 September 1946 3 November 1946
Fernando Claro Salas 3 November 1946 16 April 1947 Gabriel González Videla
Manuel Sanhueza Morales 16 April 1947 2 August 1947
José Santos Salas Morales 2 August 1947 7 July 1948
Guillermo Varas Contreras 7 July 1948 7 February 1950
Manuel Aguirre Geisse 7 February 1950 27 February 1950
Jorge Mardones Restat 27 February 1950 22 July 1952
Sótero del Río Gundián 22 July 1952 3 November 1952
Waldemar Coutts Billiviller 3 November 1952 1 April 1953 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Ministers of Public Health and Social Welfare

Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by
Eugenio Suárez Orrego 1 April 1953 1 March 1954 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Carlos Vasallo Rojas 1 March 1954 5 June 1954
Sergio Altamirano Pinto 5 June 1954 6 January 1955
Jorge Aravena Carrasco 6 January 1955 30 May 1955
Raúl Barrios Ortiz 30 May 1955 4 July 1956
Alberto Araya Lampe 4 July 1956 27 August 1956
Roberto Muñoz Urrutia 27 August 1956 18 July 1957
Jorge Torreblanca Droguett 18 July 1957 3 November 1958
Eduardo Gomién Díaz 3 November 1958 29 October 1959 Jorge Alessandri

Ministers of Public Health (Second Creation)

Picture Name Entered Office Exited Office Notes Appointed by
Sótero del Río Gundián 29 October 1959 26 August 1961 Jorge Alessandri
Benjamín Cid Quiroz 26 August 1961 26 September 1963
Francisco Rojas Villegas 26 September 1963 3 November 1964
Ramón Valdivieso Delaunay 3 November 1964 3 November 1970 Eduardo Frei Montalva
Oscar Jiménez Pinochet 3 November 1970 14 August 1971 Salvador Allende
Juan Carlos Concha Gutiérrez 14 August 1971 3 November 1972
Arturo Jirón Vargas 3 November 1972 28 August 1973
Mario Lagos Hernández 28 August 1973 11 September 1973
Alberto Spoerer Covarrubias 12 September 1973 11 November 1974 Augusto Pinochet
Francisco Herrera 12 November 1974 7 March 1976
Fernando Matthei 8 March 1976 23 July 1978
Carlos Jiménez Vargas 24 July 1978 13 December 1979
Alejandro Medina Lois 14 December 1979 28 December 1980
Hernán Rivera Calderón 29 December 1980 9 August 1983
Winston Chinchón Bunting 10 August 1983 12 August 1986
Juan Giaconi Gandolfo 13 August 1986 10 March 1990
Jorge Jiménez 11 March 1990 29 August 1992 Patricio Aylwin
Julio Montt 30 August 1992 10 April 1994
Carlos Massad 11 April 1994 6 August 1996 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Álex Figueroa 7 August 1996 10 March 2000
Michelle Bachelet 11 March 2000 6 February 2002 Ricardo Lagos
Osvaldo Artaza 7 February 2002 2 March 2003
Pedro García Aspillaga 3 March 2003 10 March 2006
María Soledad Barría 11 March 2006 27 October 2008 Michelle Bachelet
Álvaro Erazo 28 October 2008 10 March 2010
Jaime Mañalich 11 March 2010 10 March 2014 Sebastián Piñera
Helia Molina 11 March 2014 22 January 2015 Michelle Bachelet
Carmen Castillo Taucher 23 January 2015 11 March 2018
Emilio Santelices 11 March 2018 12 June 2019 Sebastián Piñera
Jaime Mañalich 13 June 2019 13 June 2020
Enrique Paris 13 June 2020 11 March 2022
María Begoña Yarza 11 March 2022 6 September 2022 Gabriel Boric
Ximena Aguilera 6 September 2022 Incumbent

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dipres.gob.cl/598/articles-176466_doc_pdf.pdf
  2. ↑ "Gobierno de Chile: Ministerio de Salud". www.gob.cl. 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.

Sources

  • República de Chile (1942). "VI. Poder Ejecutivo - Nómina de Gobernantes, Presidentes y Ministros desde la Independencia.". Manual del Senado. 1810-1942 (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria. (in Spanish)
  • Valencia Avaria, Luis (1986). Anales de la República: textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los ciudadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810 (in Spanish) (2ª edición ed.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. (in Spanish)
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