Overview
- EsSalud’s presidency issued a resolution on Saturday, October 17 that names María del Carmen Barragán Coloma as Asesor III in the Presidencia Ejecutiva and authorizes her hiring under the private labour regime.
- The agency’s founding law lets the EsSalud president directly appoint trusted staff, and the resolution records that the Presidencia Ejecutiva proposed Barragán Coloma and routed the contract authorization through central human resources and legal offices.
- Two days after the resolution, Senator Daniel Barragán attended a Senate Constitutional Commission session and his presence, as part of the Obras bloc, helped meet quorum and he voted in favour of the executive’s text.
- EsSalud president Zulema Tomás and Senator Barragán have defended the appointment as professional and procedural, saying Barragán Coloma previously provided consultancy and has long public-sector experience.
- Reporting notes Barragán Coloma’s law degree, a 2016 master’s, past roles in Contraloría, Foreign Affairs, the Academia de la Magistratura and Inabif, a 2024 denial of state-funded legal defence in an investigation, and growing media scrutiny with no formal probe or reversal announced.