Career
He served as the Ecuadorian ambassador to the Soviet Union, Poland, and the German Democratic Republic (concurrently) from 1977 to 1978. In 1988, he accepted a four-year appointment to the cabinet of newly elected president Rodrigo Borja Cevallos as Minister of Health. He was also president of the Latin American Association of Medicine.
He was also the Academic Director in the field of health at the Simón Bolívar Andean University.
They had three children: Alexis, Ana and Plutarco. He received the Eugenio Espejo National Award in 1986 in the field of science.
He died in Quito on April 27, 2012.
