The Ministry of Health has activated the Health Emergency Operations Center to coordinate the sector's response to the effects of the October 9 earthquake. The decision is set out in Resolution 832, issued on October 12, 2026, and published the following day, October 13, in Official Gazette 30633 B.

The measure organizes preparedness, monitoring, assessment, response and recovery activities. The recitals setting out the reasons for the resolution state that some health facilities became inoperable and others had to be evacuated to continue providing care. The resolution calls for checking existing conditions and adjusting measures to the findings and the evolving situation.

Article two of the resolution assigns technical and strategic leadership of the health crisis to the General Directorate of Health, headed by Dr. Yelkys Gill. Operational management falls to the center's Technical Secretariat, a role assigned to the Office for Comprehensive Health Disaster Risk Management. Planned tasks include consolidating information about the effects on the population and health response capacity. Needs for staff, medicines, supplies, medical equipment, modular hospitals and medical transport will also be coordinated. Drinking water, electricity and communications are among the resources identified as critical to maintaining services.

Infrastructure assessments are subject to an express condition. Article six requires priority inspections to be performed by competent personnel using applicable technical instruments. Findings must be documented and submitted to the authorities responsible for determining preventive, corrective or follow-up measures. Identifying possible damage does not, by itself, replace specialist assessments or decisions about structural safety, evacuation, access restrictions or occupancy. For facilities and their users, this distinction separates the initial detection of damage from a formal determination of conditions for use.

Participating entities must provide information through institutional channels, while public communications will be handled by authorized bodies. The regulation seeks to ensure that published information is verifiable, timely and consistent with official reports.

The activation takes effect upon promulgation and will continue while the conditions justifying it persist, or until the competent authority decides to modify or deactivate it. The resolution establishes coordination and assessment arrangements; its publication does not demonstrate that affected facilities have resumed operations, nor does it announce specific contract awards for the supplies mentioned.