Fátima Aburto Baselga (born 11 February 1949,

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

) is a Spanish

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and

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who belongs to the

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. She has a degree in

Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

and

Surgery Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery s ...

and specialises in

Paediatrics Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their youth ...

. Married, with two daughters, she served in the

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from 2000 to 2004 before being elected for the

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in 2004, being re-elected in 2008, representing

Huelva Huelva ( , , ) is a municipality of Spain and the capital of the Huelva (province), province of Huelva, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. Located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits betwee ...

on both occasions. She also was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011, the First Vice-President of the Health and Consumption Commission from 2008 to 2011, and was an alternate member of the Spanish Delegation to the

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during 2008. She is currently working as a pediatrician at the JRJ Hospital of Huelva, and was the director of the pediatrician management unit during 2013.

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Biography at Spanish Congress sitePersonal blog
1949 births Living people Physicians from Madrid Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 9th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians 20th-century Spanish physicians 21st-century Spanish physicians 20th-century Spanish politicians 20th-century Spanish women physicians 21st-century Spanish women physicians {{Andalusia-politician-stub