life Carrillo remained single, and supported his mother and ten younger brother and sisters. He suffered an acute illness in 1937 which left him with chronic hypertension and progressively severe headaches. He was saved by Salomón Chichilnisky, who in his youth worked as stevedore in the Port of Buenos Aires to support his parents, and despite these difficulties became a Chaired Professor of Neurology. They became close friends and colleagues afterward. Following the 1955 coup d'état against Perón and the subsequent persecution of peronists by the military regime, Carrillo was forced into exile. He died on 20 December 1956 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, aged 50. Legacy Carrillo was ultimately recognized as the architect of Argentina's modern national health system. His name was then imparted to numerous Argentine hospitals and institutions related to public health. It is frequently ascribed to the embarrassment Carrillo's model produced in less competent politicians the fact that, afterwards, his biography, ideas, and contributions to science remained generally unknown, except for outlines in neurobiology in which Carrillo took part. He likewise left numerous large but incomplete skeletons for several hospitals that were discarded after his resignation, and even as late as 2004. His brother Arturo Carrillo, still in hardship and without any official funding, published a biography detailing the magnitude of his achievements and sacrifices, Ramón Carrillo, el hombre, el médico y el sanitarista. Professor Daniel Chiarenza also published a biography of Carrillo, El Olvidado de Belém, in 2005. By Executive Order 1558 dated 9 December 2005, the Argentine Government decreed the full year 2006 as "Year of Honor to Ramón Carrillo." Numerous authors agree that the most important heritage bestowed by Ramón Carrillo were the ideas, principles, and grounding motives which accompanied his deeds. "The problems of Medicine as a branch of the State cannot be resolved while health policy is not backed by social policy. Similarly, there cannot be an effective social policy without an economy organized to benefit the greater part of the population. In the field of health, scientific achievements are only useful when they reach the whole population." References Bibliography The State journal Electroneurobiología, published by Borda Hospital in Buenos Aires, and in whose scientific tradition the biographied participated, published a set of articles on-line on Ramón Carrillo, including chapters of the biography written by his brother, voice files, and numerous photographs. All the written, graphic, and sound materials are of