Maria do Céu Sarmento Pina da Costa (born 14 April 1968 in Dili, Portuguese Timor) is an East Timorese doctor, academic and politician.

Sarmento is a member of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense) (CNRT).

[1] From 1996 to 2001, Sarmento worked as an assistant physician in the Medical Department of the National Hospital in Dili,[1] which from 1999 was under the direction of the International Red Cross.

[1] Since 2011, Sarmento has been Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs and lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Science of the National University of East Timor in Dili.

[1] In 2012, she was sworn in as Vice Minister of Health for Management, Assistance and Resources in the V Constitutional Government of East Timor.