1962 – Hansen’s Portuguese Magazine
Beginning of the edition “Rovisco Pais, Revista Portuguesa de Hansen”, a regular publication of a scientific nature that made known the hospital’s medical, scientific and social activities until 1980.
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1962 – Espariz Recovery Center
On 25 November, the Recovery Center was opened in Espariz (Tábua) to welcome and support the social reintegration of former patients, after they were cured.
1962 – Construction of Locutório
The Locutório was a small building next to the entrance, where the sick could see family and the healthy children who were interned in the Creche and Preventório in the Hospital complex. This measure was intended to avoid contagion.
1966 – Protection Association for Hansenians and Families
The creation of this association aimed at providing material assistance to patients admitted to the Hospital and their families.
1976 – Outpatient care assistance
The follow-up of some patients through the brigades and home nursing was carried out for several years by the Hospital Colónia, which assisted in the retreat of the disease, as a result of the new forms of therapy. This reality allowed the definition of the outpatient treatment regime as preferential (Decree-Law Nº 547).
1984 – Extinction of the Hansen Patient Care Institute
There was the extinction of that institute and the integration of actions to combat the disease in the Directorate-General for Primary Health Care. At that time there were 125 inpatients, of whom only 14 were still active carriers of Hansen’s bacillus.
1985 – Collective discharge to the sick
Collective discharge granted to inpatients and outpatients who until then were under epidemiological surveillance of the hospital. However, some patients decided to stay and in 1989 there were still 120 patients residing at the Hospital Rovisco Pais.
1996 – Center for Rehabilitation Medicine in the Centro-Rovisco Pais Region
The Colónia Rovisco Pais Hospital was extinguished and converted into a Center for Rehabilitation Medicine (Decree-Law Nº 203). All the rights, obligations and assets of the former Hospital were transferred to the latter, which continued to ensure the provision of care to former patients in the Hansen Service.
