María Luisa Ávila Agüero

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María Luisa Ávila Agüero
Minister of Public Health [es]
In office
8 May 2010 – 1 September 2011
PresidentLaura Chinchilla Miranda
Succeeded byDaisy Corrales
Minister of Public Health
In office
8 May 2006 – 8 May 2010
PresidentÓscar Arias Sánchez
Preceded byMaría del Rocío Sáenz [es]
Personal details
Born (1961-01-30) 30 January 1961 (age 63)
San José, Costa Rica
Political partyNational Liberation Party
Alma materUniversity of Costa Rica
OccupationPediatric infectious disease specialist
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María Luisa Ávila Agüero (born 30 January 1961) is a Costa Rican pediatric infectious disease specialist who was Minister of Public Health [es] during the administrations of Óscar Arias Sánchez (2006–2010) and Laura Chinchilla Miranda (2010–2014).

Biography

The daughter of Claudio Ávila Quirós and Evelia Agüero Garro, María Luisa Ávila Agüero studied at the Escuela República de Paraguay and the Colegio Anastasio Alfaro. She graduated as a

infectious disease
. She became the Chief of Infectious Disease at the National Children's Hospital. In 2006, President Óscar Arias Sánchez appointed her Minister of Public Health, and in the following administration, Laura Chinchilla Miranda retained her in the post. She was a member of the research committee at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas from 1998 to 2002.[1]

Arias Sánchez administration

Through the publication of Executive Decree No. 34510-S "Organic Regulation of the Ministry of Health", a new institutional structure and development of the organizational model was implemented.[2]

In July 2008, through the Executive Decree, the Costa Rica Solid Waste Plan was made official. In 2009, the country achieved the lowest infant mortality rate in its history, ranking third in Latin America, behind only Chile and Cuba.[2]

The basic

pertussis, and rotavirus. In April 2010, Law 8809 was passed, creating the National Directorate of CEN-CINAI [es] and providing it with an organizational and managerial structure, as well as resources to be able to advance the coverage of comprehensive care for the country's children.[2]

Ávila resumed the program of

vector-borne disease control, giving special emphasis to the fight against malaria, which had been abandoned by previous administrations and left in the hands of local levels of the Ministry of Health. Thanks to Dr. Ávila's management, Matina's Area of Health team was able to obtain support to control the increasing incidence of malaria which had been taking place in that canton of Limón
since the early 2000s, and with that, avoid its spread to the rest of the country's low areas.

At the end of the administration in 2010, Costa Rica reported its lowest incidence of dengue fever in nine years, and mortality from hemorrhagic dengue remained at 0.[2]

At the end of July 2009, at the Ministry's request, the

H1N1 flu pandemic.[3]

In February 2010, the Ministry's audit questioned a series of agreements and contracts that it had made with the University of Costa Rica (UCR) to implement an organizational development process at the institution, for a sum of close to 900 million colones (approximately US$1.5 million).[4]

On 20 March 2010, Ávila was part of a group of five ministers – together with Leonardo Garnier (Education),

civil unions between people of the same sex".[5]

Chinchilla Miranda administration

At the beginning of the Chinchilla Miranda administration, due to a lack of foresight and administrative problems at the Ministry of Public Health, a total of 135,000 children and mothers in poverty did not receive milk normally provided by the government. This caused Ávila to be called to appear before the Legislative Assembly, where some confrontations took place.[6]

In June 2010, members of the PAC and PUSC filed a motion of censure against the Minister of Public Health for friction created after she ordered the closure of 40 offices in the Legislative Assembly's facilities that did not meet appropriate conditions.[7]

María Luisa Ávila presented her resignation from the Ministry of Public Health in July 2011 for differences with President Laura Chinchilla on the intervention process to seek solutions to various problems in the Department of Social Security. The resignation became effective on September 1.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "María Luisa Ávila Agüero". Hospital CIMA. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Memoria Institucional 2009 – 4 años de gestión" [2009 Institutional Report – 4 Years of Management] (PDF) (in Spanish). Costa Rica Ministry of Public Health. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  3. La Nación
    (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  4. La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original
    on 3 March 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  5. La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original
    on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  6. La Nación
    (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  7. La Nación
    (in Spanish). San José. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  8. ^ "María Luisa Ávila dejará el Ministerio de Salud" [María Luisa Ávila Leaves the Ministry of Health] (in Spanish). Radio Monumental. 28 July 2011. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

Further reading

  • Echeverría Cárdenas, Roberto (25 April 2010). "María Luisa Ávila: El enamoramiento es una disfunción cerebral" [María Luisa Ávila: Falling in Love is a Brain Dysfunction]. Revista Paquidermo (in Spanish).
  • Solano B., Andrea (6 December 2009). "María Luisa Ávila".
    La Nación
     (in Spanish).
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