Known for her strong yet kind character, according to her patients, her spirits declined after the disappearance of her son, Carlos Contreras Maluje, in 1976, three years after the military dictatorship began.

[1] The pharmacy finally closed in February 2007, after fifty-six years of uninterrupted activity, after which it was replaced by the Alemana drugstore, which now has another branch on Lincoyán Street in the same city.

[10][11] The mural continues the tradition of social realism initiated in the region by Chilean painter and muralist Gregorio de la Fuente.

[1] The panel on the left side represents an idealization and synthesis of the relationship between man and nature, from which he extracts what is necessary for health and well-being in a rural setting.

[1] Toward the center of the panel, a child with a chueca watches several horsemen riding toward a group of Mapuche people who are preparing for a celebration around a fire, getting ready to sacrifice an animal.

Thus, the panel is divided into two parts:[15] on the left, showing the health methods used after the Conquest of Chile, during colonial times,[1] exercised by priests through their purifying, monastic, and research practices of cloistered life; and on the right, where peasants organize to seek out a doctor to heal a sick person lying at the end of the hallway in a landowner’s house.

[15] The left side of the panel shows scientific studies and laboratory analyses,[1] divided into two parts resembling the two floors of a university building, from whose windows teaching activities can be observed.

[15] The center of the panel serves as a transition to the outside, on the right side, where the work concludes by depicting a vaccination session for women, men, and children, carried out by nurses.

[1] This panel represents Escámez's ideal of equal access to health benefits derived from education and scientific outreach processes.