Ministry of Health (Chile)

Ministry of Health

Ministerio de Salud de Chile
Ministry headquarters
Agency overview
Formed	1959
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
Headquarters	Enrique Mac Iver 541 Santiago
Employees	128,668 (2017)[1]
Ministers responsible	Ximena Aguilera, Minister of Health Andrea Albagli, Undersecretary of Public Health Osvaldo Salgado, Undersecretary of Assistance Networks
Child agency	Fondo Nacional de Salud
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.

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).