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10:49 | Lima, Feb. 13.
Thus, he replaces Pilar Mazzetti, who stepped down from the post a day earlier.
The ceremony was held at the Government Palace in Lima.
Biography
Oscar Ugarte was born in the city of Pucallpa in 1944.
The new Health sector s chief served in said portfolio for the first time from October 2008 to July 2011.
From January to December 2002, he was Deputy Minister of Health.
Ugarte is a surgeon graduated from the San Fernando Faculty of Medicine at the Lima-based San Marcos University.
He holds a master s degree in Public Policy Management from the University of Barcelona (Spain).