The military reacted to worsening economic and security conditions by conducting a March 24, 1976 coup d'état against Mrs. Perón.
Two days after the military coup and under his instructions, 36 members of the hospital's staff were detained for presumably having links with the ultra-left, and three (Jacobo Chester, Jorge Roitman and Julio César Quiroga) disappeared and are presumed to have been killed [REF].