Ministry of Health and Social Protection (Colombia)

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection (Spanish: Ministerio de Salud y de Protección Social) is one of the sixteen national executive ministries of the Government of Colombia, and is responsible for coordinating and implementing the national policy and social services relating to health and social security.^[4]

Ministry of Health and Social Protection

Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social
Ministry overview
Formed	4 May 2011 (2011-05-04)[1]
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Social Protection
Jurisdiction	Colombia
Headquarters	Carrera 13 No. 32-76 Bogotá, Colombia 04°37′11.92″N 74°04′05.69″W
Annual budget	COP$10,484,950,978,716 (2013)[2] COP$11,174,046,764,741 (2014)[3]
Ministry executive	Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, Minister
Website	www.minsalud.gov.co

History

Upon assuming the Presidency of the Republic in his first term (2002–2006), President Álvaro Uribe Vélez decided to merge the Ministries of Health and Labor into the Ministry of Social Protection.^[5]

The two ministries that made up the Ministry of Social Protection were the Ministry of Labor, created by Law 96 of 1938, and the Ministry of Health, created under the name of Ministry of Hygiene by Law 27 of 1946 and later called the Ministry of Health.^{[citation needed]}

With the passage of Law 1444 of 2011, the Ministry of Social Protection was split into two; according to article 7 of said law, the Ministry of Social Protection was transformed into the Ministry of Labor, and according to article 9 of the same law, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection was created.^{[citation needed]}

Location

Previously, when the Ministry of Social Protection had not been separated, it was located at Carrera 13 No. 32-76 in the city of Bogotá . Currently the Ministry of Health is located at the same address, while the Ministry of Labor has its headquarters at Carrera 14 No. 99-33.

List of ministers health and social protection

Below is a table of all past ministers, the time in which they served and the presidents who appointed them into office. Noted that the head of Ministry of Social Protection prior to 2011 is also listed:

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President(s) served under
Juan Luis Londoño	August 7, 2003	February 6, 2003	Álvaro Uribe
Diego Palacio Betancourt	February 10, 2003	August 7, 2010
Mauricio Santa María	August 7, 2010	January 24, 2012	Juan Manuel Santos
Beatriz Londoño Soto	January 24, 2012	September 3, 2012
Alejandro Gaviria Uribe	September 3, 2012	August 7, 2018
Juan Pablo Uribe	August 7, 2018	February 7, 2020	Iván Duque
Fernando Ruiz Gómez	March 3, 2020	August 7, 2022
Carolina Corcho	August 7, 2022	January 5, 2023	Gustavo Petro
Guillermo Jaramillo	April 26, 2023	present

References

1. Colombia, Congress of (4 May 2011). "Ley 1444 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). No. 48, 059. Bogotá. p. 1. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
2. Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). No. 48, 640. Bogotá. p. 16. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
3. Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). No. 49, 001. Bogotá. p. 14. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
4. "Objetivos y Funciones". minsalud (in Spanish). June 26, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-06-26.
5. "Fusión de entidades u organismos nacionales y de ministerios" (PDF). Government of the Republic of Colombia. December 27, 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07 – via Wayback Machine.