HEALTH SYSTEM

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Uruguay has an Integrated National Health System that guarantees health care coverage to the entire population residing in the national territory through the National Health Insurance. 

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Health service providers are classified as follows: 

• Public system through the State Health Services Administration (ASSE).

• Collective health care institutions or private insurance.

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The Ministry of Public Health provides users with data on the institutions that make up the National Health Insurance. A comparison of the indicators of all health providers can be made on this website.

 

NATIONAL HEALTH FUND

 

The National Integrated Health System regulates the right to health protection for all people in the country, through a National Health Insurance (SNS), financed by the National Health Fund (Fonasa), mandatorily extending health coverage to workers and their dependent household family members:

• Dependent children under 18 years of age or older children with disabilities, both their own and those of the spouse or partner when they are not covered by their biological or adoptive parents.

• Spouse or partner who does not have National Health Insurance (SNS) medical coverage.

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More information here. 

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