Ministry of Popular Power for Health/ Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud (MPPS) (Venezuela)

The Ministry of Popular Power for Health is an agency of the Venezuelan state that coordinates, controls, manages and supervises the operations and health services of Venezuelans. In March 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez renamed the ministry, which was renamed the Ministry of People's Power for Health and Social Protection, merging and eliminating the Ministry of People's Power for Participation and Social Protection.

History

Founded on March 1, 1936 under the name Ministry of Health and Social Assistance (MSAS) as part of an administrative restructuring of the then Ministry of Health, Agriculture and Livestock, one of the first measures dictated by the president of Venezuela, General Eleazar Lopez Contreras. In 1999, President Hugo Chávez changed the name of the ministry by merging it with the Ministry of the Family, with the name of Ministry of Health and Social Development.

Mission

Under the stewardship of the recently created National Public Health System, the MPPS implements and supervises the governmental care networks to:

Make Social Rights and Equity the foundations of a new social order, of justice and well-being for all.

Combat inequities, reducing attention deficits and gaps between human groups and territories.

Rescue what is public based on the collective interest, empowering citizens with capacity in the design and execution of policies that impact the social development of the country.