Las secuelas patológicas de los campos de concentración entre los refugiados españoles en Franciaretos diagnósticos y terapéuticos en el Hospital Varsovia de Toulouse (1944-1950)
- Àlvar Martínez Vidal 1
- Xavier García Ferrandis 2
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Universitat de València
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Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir
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ISSN: 0211-9536
Year of publication: 2020
Issue Title: La ayuda médica humanitaria a los refugiados españoles en Francia (1939-1950)
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 93-123
Type: Article
More publications in: Dynamis: Acta hispanica ad medicinae scientiarumque historiam illustrandam
Abstract
From the spring of 1945, the Hospital Varsovia in Toulouse (France) provided medical assistance to thousands of Spanish Republican refugees who remained in exile in Southern France. The hospital had been founded in the autumn of 1944 in the outskirts of Toulouse after the invasion of Aran Valley in the context of the so-called Operation Reconquest of Spain. A review of clinical cases reported in the pages of Anales del Hospital Varsovia (1948-1950) shows that many patients had contracted diseases in the concentration camps because of the poor living conditions under a regime of severe confinement. Doctors described insidious diseases that were difficult to diagnose. Successive clinical and laboratory tests revealed the presence of latent deficiency diseases (due to malnutrition), chronic occult infections (tuberculosis and intestinal parasitosis), and sexually transmitted diseases.
Funding information
Este artículo ha sido financiado parcialmente por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación del Gobierno de España en el marco del proyecto de investigación «Acciones de socorro y tecnologías médicas en emergencias humanitarias (1850-1950): agencias, agendas, espacios y representaciones» (HAR2015-67723-P [MINECO/FEDER]).Funders
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Spain
- HAR2015-67723-P
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MINECO
Spain
- HAR2015-67723-P
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FEDER
- HAR2015-67723-P