Minister of Health (Timor-Leste)

Minister of Health
Minister of Health
Ministra da Saúde (Portuguese); Ministra Saúde (Tetum);
	Coat of Arms of East Timor
	Flag of East Timor
	Incumbent; Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral; since 1 July 2023
	Ministry of Health
Style	Minister; (informal); Her Excellency; (formal, diplomatic)
Member of	Constitutional Government
Reports to	Prime Minister
Seat	Dili, East Timor
Appointer	President of East Timor; (following proposal by the Prime Minister of East Timor)
Inaugural holder	Rui Maria de Araújo
Formation	20 September 2001
Website	Ministry of Health

The Minister of Health (Portuguese: Ministra da Saúde, Tetum: Ministra Saúde) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Health.

Functions

Under the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:

to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Health;
to ensure relations between the Government and the other organs of the State in the area of responsibility of the Ministry of Health.^[1]

Where the Minister is in charge of the subject matter of a government statute, the Minister is also required, together with the Prime Minister, to sign the statute.^[1]

Incumbent

The incumbent Minister of Health is Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral. She is assisted by two deputy ministers.^{[note 1]}^[2]^[3]

List of ministers

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister of Health:

No.		Minister	Government (Prime Minister)	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1	Independent	Rui Maria de Araújo	II UNTAET (Alkatiri)	20 September 2001	20 May 2002	5 years, 332 days
			I Constitutional (Alkatiri)	20 May 2002	10 July 2006
			II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta)	10 July 2006	19 May 2007
	Fretilin		III Constitutional (da Silva)	19 May 2007	8 August 2007
2	Independent	Nélson Martins [de]	IV Constitutional (Gusmão)	8 August 2007	8 August 2012	5 years, 0 days
3	CNRT	Sérgio Lobo	V Constitutional (Gusmão)	8 August 2012	16 February 2015	2 years, 192 days
4	CNRT	Maria do Céu Sarmento Pina da Costa	VI Constitutional (Araújo)	16 February 2015	15 September 2017	2 years, 211 days
(1)	Fretilin	Rui Maria de Araújo	VII Constitutional (Alkatiri)	15 September 2017	22 June 2018	280 days
(acting)	CNRT	Élia dos Reis Amaral	VIII Constitutional (Ruak)	22 June 2018	3 April 2020	1 year, 286 days
(acting)	PLP	Bonifácio dos Reis [de]	VIII Constitutional (Ruak)	3 April 2020	29 May 2020	56 days
5	Fretilin	Odete Maria Freitas Belo	VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured)	29 May 2020	1 July 2023	3 years, 33 days
6	CNRT	Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral	IX Constitutional (Gusmão)	1 July 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 214 days

References

Footnotes

^ The Constitution of East Timor provides, in sections 104 and 105, for the appointment of officials referred to in its English language version as "Deputy Ministers". In other English language publications, those officials are commonly referred to as "Vice Ministers", even though the word "Vice", in context, arguably has a different meaning in English from the word "Deputy". In this article, the constitutional expression "Deputy" is used.

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 14 January 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Martins, Filomeno (30 June 2023). "The list of structure of IX Constitutional Government announced in Official Gazette". Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
^ Sousa, Nelson de (1 July 2023). "PR Horta sei akompaña serbisu IX Governu" [President Horta will accompany the work of the IX Government] (in Tetum). Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

External links

Media related to Ministers of Health of East Timor at Wikimedia Commons

Ministry of Health – official site (in English)

[2] The Constitution of East Timor provides, in sections 104 and 105, for the appointment of officials referred to in its English language version as "Deputy Ministers". In other English language publications, those officials are commonly referred to as "Vice Ministers", even though the word "Vice", in context, arguably has a different meaning in English from the word "Deputy". In this article, the constitutional expression "Deputy" is used.

[section_117-1] "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 14 January 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[tatoli_2023-06-30-3] Martins, Filomeno (30 June 2023). "The list of structure of IX Constitutional Government announced in Official Gazette". Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

[tatoli_2023-07-01-4] Sousa, Nelson de (1 July 2023). "PR Horta sei akompaña serbisu IX Governu" [President Horta will accompany the work of the IX Government] (in Tetum). Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

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