Overview
- An official communiqué on Sunday confirmed the acceptance of Ricardo Peña’s irrevocable resignation as vice minister of Public Health, with no successor announced.
- Peña, who served more than two years, wrote to Minister Luis Quiroz that he stepped down to let the incoming government select its own leadership.
- His departure aligns with a wave of high-level rotations driven by President José Jerí’s executive team across strategic units.
- Key posts affected include the Secretariat, Human Resources, and Planning and Budget directorates, which specialists say are critical to year‑end fiscal closure and ongoing hospital works.
- The ministry said it will evaluate the continuity of other officials as part of internal restructuring and flagged parallel drug‑safety actions, including steps on a contaminated product and a bill to elevate Digemid to a national medicines authority.