Overview

• Decrees 458 and 459 took effect July 7–8 to create the National Administration of Health Establishments (ANES), unifying the administrative, financial and legal oversight of five national hospitals: Bonaparte, Sommer, Posadas, Ramón Carrillo and INAREPS.
• The National Cancer Institute has been absorbed as an internal unit of the Health Ministry and the never-operational National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases was formally dissolved.
• The National Institute of Tropical Medicine was merged into ANLIS Malbrán to consolidate epidemiological surveillance and eliminate overlapping functions.
• Inactive federal health delegations were eliminated and obsolete regulations over 50 years old were repealed to reduce bureaucracy and strengthen the ministry’s technical role.
• Existing SAMIC hospitals will operate unchanged under provincial co-management, the authority to create new SAMIC centers has been revoked, and ANES is on track for full operational capacity by January 2026.