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Research on a character who contributed to the health sector in Ecuador

Biography of Dr. Wenceslao Ollague Loaiza
He was born in Santa Rosa, El Oro Province, on December 14, 1927. He was a legitimate child.

of José María Ollague Paredes, pharmaceutical chemist, owner of the Olmedo pharmacy in Santa

Rosa, from a very comfortable economic position, deputy in 1956, president of the Council

Cantonal in 1968, governor of El Oro and a well-known public figure in that province, and of his

first cousin Ángela Loaiza Ollague; both were originally from Santa Rosa.

He was the third of a family composed of seven siblings, he studied elementary school in the

Antonio José de Sucre school in his hometown. In 1939 he moved to Guayaquil and was

enrolled in the Vicente Rocafuerte school where he excelled as a good athlete and a good

student and in 1945 graduated with a degree in Chemical-Biologist.

Between 1946 and 1949, he worked in his father's pharmacy in Santa Rosa. He was a

tall, strong, dark-skinned, slender boy with angular features, skilled at playing the tuba and

he was part of the santarroseño musical group 'Tibiritabara' that delighted the

social gatherings of that time but had a short duration. Then he began to fall in love with

Blanca Nívea Paredes, with whom I would marry seven years later.

In 1949 he enrolled in the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Guayaquil and upon finishing

In 1954, in the fifth year, he traveled to Madrid with a scholarship from the Institute of Hispanic Culture.

pursue his studies at the Central University of that city, achieving a degree in

October 1955 and the doctorate in 1956 with the thesis on 'Treatment of cancers

"cutaneous by superficial radiotherapy" directed by Dr. José Gay Prieto and deserved the

maximum rating of outstanding. Immediately afterward, he served at the boarding school of the

San Juan de Dios and San Carlos hospitals, taking a year-long course on

skin diseases and skin cancer with Dr. Gay Prieto and another one from Radiotherapy

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with Dr. Carlos Gil Gil, professor of Physical Therapy and Radiotherapy at the University of

Madrid.

Back in the country in February 1957, he validated his doctoral degree and entered the room.

Santa Luisa of the General Hospital of Guayaquil as an associate physician of Professor Enrique

Uraga Peña. In 1958 he married his girlfriend, a happy marriage with three daughters.

In 1959, he returned to Madrid and completed a one-year postgraduate degree in Dermatology and

Venereology at the La Concepción Carlos Jiménez Díaz Clinic with Prof. José Gómez

Orbaneja. He was already an honorary Cultural Attaché of the Ecuadorian Embassy, a doctor of the

colony and during the holidays traveled through various countries in Europe and North Africa. So

the Royal Academy of Dermatology of Spain designated him as a Full Member and he was inducted into

Ibero-Latin American College of Dermatology, living five months as an intern at the Hospital

from the Dermatology San Luis of Paris directed in its work by Prof. Degos.

In 1960, he gave a keynote address in Machala on the latest use of the

Griseofulvins in the treatment of ringworm. In 1961, he set up his professional office in the

Bertullo building in Guayaquil, starting a hectic life as Chief of Clinic of the

Dermatology department of the University of Guayaquil, later would be promoted to Head

Principal and finally, upon the retirement of Dr. Uraga Peña, he was replaced in courses 5 and 6,

directing the theses. At the same time, he began to attend the Congresses annually.

Pan American Dermatology making itself known for its always innovative work and

useful, where he recounted part of his experiences and research in the field of diseases.

infectious tropical skin diseases, fungi, ringworm, parasites, etc.

In 1967, he attended the Skin Histopathology courses of Prof. Trapi and

Dentistry of Prof. Griuspan. In the 1970s, he built a cement villa.

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corner on the Main Avenue of the Los Ceibos urbanization and reported through a

massive press campaign about the harmful effects of cement dust on the respiratory system

and on the skin, especially as a provoking agent for allergic dermatitis.

In 1974, he published a 'Dermatology Manual' for the use of his students.

University of Guayaquil, which due to its innovations became a text and a reference work

for his colleagues and his success was so resounding that shortly after he reached the sixth edition

augmented and corrected based on updates. This latest edition was released under the title of

"Manual of Dermatology and Venereology". In that year he was appointed as a doctor at the Institute.

Ecuadorian Social Security IESS, working at dispensary No. 6 of Dr.

Tarquino Viteri Cifuentes, but shortly afterwards he was moved to No. 24 where he worked with the

Dr. Olga Seminario, who was in charge of that unit. He was later promoted to Director of

Dispensary No. 31 of Dermatology of the IESS where a magnificent Center was organized.

research and teaching and towards involving their university students in the courses

superiors to help with the attention of the affiliates and to charge experiences. In the

laboratory that assembled piece by piece discovered and confirmed the existence of a new

disease, Gnathostomiasis, finding the adult parasite for the first time in America

of Gnathostoma in its definitive host state in a cat and a dog from Petrillo,

Province of Guayas and began to publish a series of very valuable monographs such as 'The

Lepra en el Ecuador", “Amiloidosis Cutánea Primitiva", etc.

In 1976, he received the Scientific Merit Award, which was given to him by the

Municipality of Guayaquil. In 1978, he founded the Institute with several colleagues.

Dermatology, Venereology, Allergy, and Mycology C. Ltd. which started publishing a magazine

scientific. He was also appointed Member of the Dermatological Society of France.

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In August 1981, he inaugurated the skin Histopathology laboratory, celebrated his wedding.

silver professionals, received from the Government the National Order of Merit and the Municipality

from Machala awarded the Medal for Scientific Merit. That year he visited Europe with his family and

to the next traveled to Japan, attending several Scientific Congresses of Dermatology, such as

it was always his habit, to stay updated.

He distributed his time meticulously. He spent the mornings at the Center.

Dermatological of the IESS which had been equipped with a large specialized library and the afternoons

in his office, where many times night would fall due to the influx of clients.

In the mornings, he served, studied, researched, and advised his students, guiding their steps.

towards the daily practices of the laboratory, which is why he trained a host of

specialists.

He won two National Contests, one from the National Institute of Hygiene with 'Leprosy in the

Ecuador as a Public Health Problem" which constitutes a valuable report in pamphlet form and the

of the II National Medicine Contest with 'A Research Study in the East

"Ecuadorian" which was also published.

Performed dermatological procedures, treatments with liquid nitrogen, biopsies and

chemotherapy treatments, desensitizing vaccines for allergies and organized

every so often courses for general practitioners so that they could make contact and

they will become familiar with skin diseases.

In November 1983, he collaborated with the aid operation 'United We Are More' to

the victims of the floods caused on the coast by the El Niño current,

forming the dermatological brigades that were transferred to the hospital in Salinas where

they attended to more than 1500 patients in a week and then to various sites in El Oro. In the

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summer made known the existence of a Fuetazo epidemic and moved to a new office

another larger and more elegant one in the Medical Center on Francisco Boloña Avenue, cityscape

New Kennedy.

In 1985 he published "Gnathostomiasis, Nodular Migratory Eosinophilic Paniculitis", in 84

pages in association with doctors Manuel Briones Ibarra and Eduardo Gómez Landires,

work that positioned him at the forefront of the World Tropical Medicine Researchers.

In 1986, he personally resumed the publication of the Ecuadorian Dermatological Journal and

began to teach the dermatology course at the Faculty of Medicine of the University

Catholic University of Guayaquil.

In 1988, he began to feel unwell; he was losing renal function.

disease that affects many members of the Loayza family from El Oro. Traveled to

Miami and underwent several very thorough check-ups trying to overcome such a serious problem. The

your doctor friends advised you to practice four peritoneal dialysis sessions a day, as it was

a kidney transplant is very risky.

In 1990, he wrote "Donovanosis, a forgotten entity, clinical histological study and

"therapeutic" in 58 pages and numerous engravings, covering the topic extensively.

infectious disease caused by a gram-negative microbacillus that produces lesions

genital, extragenital and systematic.

Her professional mystique knew no rest, she elevated the scientific name of our

Homeland in International Congresses where her voice was heard with respect. It was

diligent, healed thousands, attending to them with education and courtesy as he had something of a European.

because of the importance he gave to details and gestures; on the other hand, his handwriting was so bad and

illegible, that on one occasion several pharmacist friends gathered and went to ask him

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that he would acquire a machine and write his recipes with it. A gesture that surprised him and

an immense grace and since then he learned to type with two fingers, to

finally do it through a computer, being one of the first doctors to adopt

such a brand new system that has since become popular in the country.

In 1990, with her natural defenses very low and almost without strength due to her illness.

renal, caught a childhood virus from the environment, which would have gone unnoticed in any other organism

unnoticed and one afternoon he returned from the dermatological center in such a state of exhaustion that

he could not stand and had to lie down and notify that he would not go to the office. The next day

next improved and was able to attend to several patients who had come to seek him at his home,

where he had the patience to receive anyone and did not charge because that's just how he was.

That afternoon his wife noticed that he had lost the thread of his thoughts and became alarmed.

very much because it was the first time that this happened to him. Then he made the decision

to charter an air ambulance and they traveled to Miami, he was admitted to Mount Sinai hospital and

having exhausted all the resources of science, he passed away two days later, on September 16,

almost 63 years old.

His remains arrived in Guayaquil on the 18th, and were honored during the wake in the hall of honor.

the University and buried in the Garden of Hope cemetery.

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