Mário, from kid to nurse Mário Bexiga memories go back to his childhood, when he lived near the hospital and jumped over the fence to watch the open-air cinema that was shown to patients. Fate reserved him to be nurse at that health unit. He entered the Hospital in 1970 and the first place where …
Lucy, the twin Lucy * and her brother were twins. The mother had three twin pregnancies and only in that both babies survived. They had months of life when the social workers at Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais welcomed them into the Preventório, with their parents’ agreement. The family lived with enormous needs and the mother …
Elias, nursing on wheels Elias Paiva graduated from the School of Nursing Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca in Coimbra, in 1964. He was in the troop in Vila Franca de Xira until 1968 and after having worked at the University of Coimbra Hospitals, he started working at the Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais, in 1969. At …
Memories of a doctor Dr. Saudade Gonçalo developed her professional activity as a doctor at Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais between 1965 and 1980. She started as a second assistant and ended up as head of service. In an initial phase she lived in the neighborhood of employees that existed near the hospital. Before going to …
Rodrigo’s happy memories Rodrigo*, his mother and brothers arrived at the Tocha in March 1964, at the end of the day. The trip was long and on the way, from his home to the Hospital, the Brigade had picked up another patient. He was five years old and from the moment he arrived at the …
Olinda. A decade, many memories Olinda * lived somewhere in the Serra de Montemuro. The father had “the disease” since he was 18, as she said “he lay down on the green grass, then he passed the shadow and he was taken away from the hands”. But it was only when his son asked to …
By Decree-Law Nº 29.122 was created Leprosy Rovisco Pais and named the drafting committees of the program and works, which were part of the doctor-surgeon Bissaya Barreto and architect Carlos Ramos.
In that year, Portuguese legislation established the mandatory admission of infectious patients (Decree-Law Nº 36.450). The Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais was inaugurated with a big ceremony on the 7th of September. The first patients arrived on October 1st. Inauguration video
The pavilion for infectious diseases and the residential neighborhood for employees began to operate.
On this date, the activity of the Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais and the mobile brigades allowed the identification of 1889 patients in Portugal.
