This grievance was led by the government and the representatives of the powerful urban owners who threatened to stop their investments in the area of Vedado, thus the leprosy patients were promptly removed from Barrio San Lazaro.

The church at the San Lazaro Hospital is a 'uninave' type composed of a single nave similar to the Espíritu Santo church and could have served as a model for the renovation in 1926 for Iglesia Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje, Havana by the architectural firm of Leonardo Morales y Pedroso, architects of El Colegio de Belen as both buildings have a similar typology of a semi-long nave with the tallest room located at the crossing and smaller rooms at the side.

While the works in Rincón advanced, the patients were transferred to Mariel and housed in barracks that the Spanish government had used for the quarantine of immigrants and troops, without having the minimum conditions for the existence of human beings The Rincon is a town located about 25 miles from the center of Havana and close to Santiago de Las Vegas, belonging to the current municipality of Boyeros.

This locality limits with the towns of Bejucal, San Antonio de los Baños, Wajay and Bauta, territories that until April 2011 belonged to the province of Havana.

[3] On February 26, 1917, without adequate means of transportation; In carts, plates and wooden ambulances pulled by horses or oxen, the patients were taken to the hospital in Rincón half-built, far from the city, and without resources to take care of the sick.

After the strenuous journey from Mariel, the patients arrived in Rincon and found a bitter reality: the hospital consisted of a few pavilions still unfinished, in the middle of a muddy field, without running water or electricity, without streets, without nursing, and without accommodation of their religious needs.

The priest Apolinar López and the superior mother, Sister Ramona Idoate, were those who, with great strength of spirit and personal sacrifice, achieved the conditioning of the place, for which they relied fundamentally on the donations and alms of devotees.

[citation needed] Later the first families affected by leprosy arrived and who settled there for medical treatment and patients from various other hospitals that had been closed for the purpose of concentrating the large numbers of lepers.