Through a statement, the portfolio itself disclosed that the Master’s degree in Administration, with Cum Laude distinction and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, was sworn in by the president of the country, Bernardo Arévalo, through the General Secretariat.
Prior to its definition by the current national Executive, the official held the position of Deputy Head of Financial Administration since January 2024, the text stated.
She added that she has experience as deputy executive director I (financial administrative head) in the departmental management of the Sacatepéquez sector, whose performance lasted from June 2012 to January 2024.
She was also deputy executive director I (financial administrative manager) at the National Hospital of Tiquisate, municipality of Escuintla, where she held the position from March 2010 to March 2012.
As Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, Aparicio is committed to working with transparency at the head of the institution, according to the message.
He urged Health workers to carry out their functions for the benefit of the well-being of the Guatemalan population.
Since last January 14, the date on which the new Government took office, Cordón faced a crisis situation of hospital shortages, the result of the accumulation of all the inherited problems.
More recently, at the beginning of this month, deputy Byron Rodríguez, from the Todos bench, presented a request for an interpellation against him due to the state of the healthcare network, supply of medicines, cases of alleged corruption, among others.
After the interpellations in Congress of the Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Ramiro Martínez, Cordón’s would be the third, scheduled for next July 25.
The former Health Minister previously assured that in 101 working days he attended to 107 summonses from legislators, due to complaints about the national hospitals of the West and Coatepeque.
It constituted the third dismissal in five months of the national administration, after the removal at the beginning of last April of the head of the Environment and Natural Resources María José Iturbide, who misused the resources under her leadership.
On May 17 of this year, the country’s president dismissed the head of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, Jazmín de la Vega, for failing to comply with instructions by authorizing payments to construction companies outside the agreed control procedure.
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