Alejandro Aguinaga

Alejandro Aurelio Aguinaga Recuenco (born January 28, 1950) is a Peruvian physician and fujimorist politician. He has been Congressman, representing Lambayeque, since 2006.

Alejandro Aguinaga
Member of Congress
In office
26 July 2006 – 26 July 2016
ConstituencyLambayeque
Interim President of Congress
In office
11 July 2009 – 26 July 2009
Preceded byJavier Velásquez
Succeeded byLuis Alva Castro
Minister of Health
In office
15 April 1999 – 21 November 2000
PresidentAlberto Fujimori
Prime MinisterVíctor Joy Way
Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde
Federico Salas
Preceded byCarlos Augusto De Romaña y García
Succeeded byEduardo Pretell Zárate
Personal details
Political partyPopular Force (2009-present)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (before 2009)

After eight years of studies, Aguinaga graduated from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima with a medical degree, in 1975. From 1977 to 1979, he furthered his qualification at the National University of San Marcos, specialising in general and digestive system surgery. From 1981 to 1985, he attended a post-gradual training in gastrointestinal surgery at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. From 1985 to 2006 he practiced at the Archbishop Loayza Hospital in Lima, starting as an assistant surgeon and later gaining promotion to general director. As a professor, he has lectured about surgery at the Cayetano Heredia University, the Universidad de San Martín de Porres, and the private University San Juan Bautista. Additionally, he became the personal doctor of president Alberto Fujimori.[1]

In Fujimori's administration, he held the post of vice minister of health from 1994 to 1999 and eventually he became minister heading the same ministry from 1999 to 2000. In 2006, Aguinaga was elected to the Congress on the Fujimorist Alliance for the Future list. In 2011, he was re-elected for another five-year term for the Fuerza 2011 party of Fujimori's daughter Keiko.

References
  1. "Ficha de Congresista". Congreso de la Republica del Peru. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2010.


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