Jaime José Mañalich Muxi (June 7, 1954) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an physician (

nephrologist Nephrology (from Greek'' nephros'' "kidney", combined with the suffix ''-logy'', "the study of") is a specialty of adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (ren ...

), and former

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. He held the position during the first Piñera government (2010-2014) and assumed the role again in June 2019 until he was replaced in June 2020 amidst criticism over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile. Eye injuries in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests, The widespread eye injuries were one of the topics addressed during the impeachment of Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile), Minister of the Interior and Public Security Andrés Chadwick in November 2019. On November 20 Mañalich declared to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chamber of Deputies that there was twelve persons with the loss of one eye and about thirty with serious injuries.

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Living people 1954 births Chilean Ministers of Health People from Santiago University of Chile alumni 2010 Copiapó mining accident Chilean nephrologists {{Chile-med-bio-stub