Alba Consuelo Flores Ferrufino (Danlí, November 30, 1965) is a Honduran pedagogue and civil servant, current Secretary of Health of the Republic, a position that she assumed on December 27, 2018, under the presidency of Juan Orlando Hernández.
On December 27, 2018, President Juan Orlando Hernández swore in Flores Ferrufino as Secretary of Health, replacing Dr. Octavio Sánchez.
Between 2019 and 2020, the secretariat, under the direction of Flores Ferrufino and her work team, has had to face the dengue epidemic of 2019-2020, which has left thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths in the country.
[7] On March 17, the first case was confirmed in San Pedro Sula, a 61-year-old man of Asian origin, who had traveled on business to New York City, United States in February.
[9] On the morning of April 1, Flores Ferrufino and Mexican Piedad Huerta, representative of the Pan American Health Organization in the country, were quarantined due to suspicions of contagion by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), after it became known that a close associate of both had tested positive for the disease the day before.