Ministerio de Salud Publica Subcentros (Ministry of Public Health Rural Health Centers)

To practice the organization, regulation, planning, coordination, oversight, and procedural management of Ecuadorean public health through governance, surveillance, and sanitation oversight; to guarantee the right to health through the provision of individual healthcare services, the prevention of illness, promotion of health and equality, health surveillance, research and development of science and technology, and the coordination of health system components.