Catalina Andramuño Zeballos is an Ecuadorian doctor and magister in health who served under the government of Lenín Moreno as Minister of Public Health[1] of Ecuador between 3 July 2019 until 21 March 2020, after which she resigned in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She studied medicine at the University of Guayaquil, where she also obtained a master's degree in public health; she made a specialty in health management and administration at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral.
After the resignation of Verónica Espinosa, the President Lenín Moreno appointed Andramuño as the minister in charge on 3 July 2019, then on 18 October, she was officially designated as the Minister of Public Health.
That case was a 71-year-old woman arrived in the country on 14 February who later presented disease-related symptoms.
[5] On the same day, Dr. Juan Carlos Zevallos was appointed as the new Minister of Public Health by executive decree 1018 by President Moreno.