Hospital Barros Lucas Maternity Ward

Santiago, Chile Closed 2010 On 24 September 1911, Chile’s President Ramón Barros Luco laid the first stone for Santiago’s first public hospital, which would go on to become one of the country’s largest health-care facilities. Fourteen years later, his widow, Mercedes Valdés, helped create the maternity ward which would eventually carry her husband’s name. For most […]