Resumen en inglés

Introduction: In accordance with the provisions of Law 9 of 1979, the Departmental, District, and Sectional Health Secretariats were granted the competence to perform the functions of inspection, surveillance, and control of all establishments open to the public. This authority was explicitly added with respect to establishments open to the public dedicated to providing health services, through Law 10 of 1990. Therefore, the fulfillment of the functions of inspection, surveillance, and control, which lead the Health Secretariats to carry out administrative processes that may result in the imposition of sanctions, is of vital importance. These processes are subject to various regulations regarding applicable sanctions. Objective: To design the administrative sanctioning procedure of the municipal health secretariat of Montería, Córdoba; this instrument is presented as a tool for the application of the administrative sanctioning procedure and the imposition of sanctions based on the provisions established in the Political Constitution of Colombia, Law 9 of 1979, Law 1437 of 2011, Decree 3518 of 2006, and other regulations that replace, modify, or add to them. Methodology: It was carried out according to the established procedures for document updating, through the following phases: documentary review according to regulations with a SWOT analysis, information gathering using the MIPG format, verification, and finally, execution. Results: The need felt by the Health Secretariat for the design of the administrative sanctioning procedure was fulfilled. The responsible parties for applying these measures will be the environmental security area, the legal area, and the national police, working together