Osvaldo Olguín Zapata

Osvaldo Opelio Olguín Zapata (30 January 1931 – 26 April 2018) was a Chilean surgeon, obstetrician-gynecologist, and politician, member of the Christian Democratic Party. He served as councilor and mayor of Calama, and later as senator for Tarapacá and Antofagasta between 1969 and 1973.

Biography He was the son of Mariano Ernesto Olguín Valdés and Isaura Zapata Zapara. He married Elena Palma Torrealba.

He studied at the Instituto Chacabuco and the Liceo of Los Andes. He then entered the University of Chile, graduating as a surgeon in 1959 with the thesis Incidencia del glaucoma en la población escolar de Santiago. He later specialized in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chile (1974–1977).

He practiced his profession in San Antonio in 1958, and later became deputy director of the Hospital of Calama. He also collaborated as a physician for various miners' unions. He worked as obstetrician-gynecologist at the Hospital del Salvador, Santiago (1957–1983), and was physician for the Red Cross (1974–1979). He was a member of the Lions Club from 1980.

His parliamentary term was cut short when the military junta dissolved the National Congress through Decree Law No. 27 of 21 September 1973.