Enfermos del mal de Hansen reincorporanse a la sociedad

Overview

In 1959, Dr. Guillermo Garrido-Lecca Frías, the newly appointed Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, accepted ten thousand doses of the new drug Thiambutosine, or "CIBA 1906," from Antonio Esteban, representative of the Swiss laboratories CIBA, to combat the devastating effects of this disease. He also met with representatives of the patient community, promising them action to end the social segregation they had been enduring.