Karina Rando

Ana Evelyn Karina Rando Huluk is a Uruguayan anesthesiologist and politician of Open Cabildo (CA), serving as Minister of Public Health of Uruguay since March 13, 2023.

[1] Rando attended the Crandon Institute and graduated with a medical degree from the University of the Republic.

[2] She has provided services in different health centers and since 2009 she has been a member of the founding team of the Bi-Institutional Liver Transplant Unit of the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces as anesthesia coordinator.

[3] Her predecessor as minister Daniel Salinas had in part left the job and politics because of the attention he received from anti-vaccine groups during the pandemic.

She had previously been the Coordination Director at the Ministry of Public Health and her appointment was by President Lacalle Pou.