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Directorate General of Public Health, MINSA (Dirección General de Salud Pública)

The MINSA directorate responsible for formulating and updating the legal and technical norms for all public and private health-service provision, and for the Sistema Único de Habilitación de Instalaciones de Salud (health-facility licensing system).

Scope of authority

Sets national health-service norms and licenses/enables (habilita) health facilities and establishments across the national health system.

How to check a licence

We could not document this register automatically (no practitioner or facility register and no complaint form were found on its page; for practitioner checks see the Consejo Técnico de Salud entry). Open the official site directly.

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