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Flor Rodriguez said that at the time the cure for them was Penicillin , but only worked if the disease was not advanced. She said the lack of research and stability of a remedy was really dissapointing. Later on
1981 the three step treatment wass introduced: dapsone,rifampicin and clofazimine.
The village where Flor Rodriguez said that as patients they had no freedom of going elsewhere then San Pablo. They begun creating a whole new community with eachother, and treating one another as family. In a Lonely, desperate place they felt the need to express themselves in a way that would enlightened their lives. Mst of them begun writing lyrics-even if they had no hands- they write lyrics as one. Mrs. Rodriguez sang a song called "SAN PABLO" it explain how the patients lost youthful years being
in the leper colony , they exokained as if they were BURIED ALIVE. Flor says that San Pablo was a very blessed village but it was reigned by anguish and a lot of suffering. At this point of the interview Flor could not keep going as she begun to cry.