Ministry of Health (Portugal)

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Ministry of Health
Ministério da Saúde
Ministry overview
Formed1958 (1958)
JurisdictionGovernment of Portugal
HeadquartersLisbon
Minister responsible
Websitewww.min-saude.pt Edit this at Wikidata

The Ministry of Health (Portuguese: Ministério da Saúde) is a Portuguese government ministry. The minister is Ana Paula Martins, she is a pharmacist and a politician, she used to be the CEO of Santa Maria university hospital, in Lisbon. Because of the lack of doctors in Portugal, there as a huge merger in Portugal lead by the CEO of the portuguese NHS creating in Lisbon an integrated delivery system that covers about a third to an half of the city and the exotic medical specialities. Because she has against the creation of an Integrated Delivery System in her hospital (ULS Santa Maria in portuguese) she decided to pause her collaboration with the NHS. After a couple of months there was a new government and she was nominated Ministry of Health, becaming the boss of the CEO of the portuguese NHS.

Her deputies are Cristina Vaz Tomé and Ana Povo.

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