Catalina Andramuño
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Catalina Andramuño Zeballos is an Ecuadorian doctor and magister in health who served under the government of
Lenín Moreno Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés (; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021. He was also vice president from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa. He was nominat ...
as Minister of Public Health of Ecuador between 3 July 2019 until 21 March 2020, after which she resigned in the midst of the
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Biography

Andramuño was born in
Guayaquil Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is ...
, Guayas, Ecuador. She studied medicine at the
University of Guayaquil The University of Guayaquil ( Spanish: ''Universidad de Guayaquil''), known colloquially as the ''Estatal'' (i.e., "the State niversity), is a public university in Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador. Estatal was founded in 1883. It is the ol ...
, where she also obtained a master's degree in public health; she made a specialty in health management and administration at the
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) is a public university located in Guayaquil, Guayas Province in Ecuador. ESPOL has five faculties or schools, fifteen research centers, and several associated centers providing twenty-six un ...
. Between June 2014 and June 2015, she served as District 9 Health Director.


Minister of Public Health

After the resignation of Verónica Espinosa, the President Lenín Moreno appointed Andramuño as the minister in charge on 3 July 2019, then on 18 October, she was officially designated as the Minister of Public Health.


COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador and resignation

On 29 February 2020, Andramuño was in charge of reporting the first case of the
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disease in Ecuador, which was a case imported from
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,
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. That case was a 71-year-old woman arrived in the country on 14 February who later presented disease-related symptoms. On 21 March, she resigned in the midst of the health emergency. On the same day, Dr. Juan Carlos Zevallos was appointed as the new Minister of Public Health by executive decree 1018 by President Moreno.


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