Lykle Hogerzeil (Oosterbeek, April 12, 1927 - Ripon Engeland, January 13, 2011) was a lepra-arts. Life
Hogerzeil grew up in Oosterbeek, mainly in house Bergoord. After the war he started a study, but later switched to medicine. From 1955-1963 he worked in eastern Nigeria for the Council for the Mission (Oegstgeest) and the Basler Mission, among others, as a medical superintendent in the Uzuakoli leprakolonie. As a leader in a leprosy institution, Stanley Browne was investigating the use of Clofazimine as a remedy for leprosy.
After returning to the Netherlands, he studied dermatology at the University of Utrecht in the period 1964-1971. He was promoted in 1971. In 1967, he married the secretary of Corrie ten Boom: Connie van Hoogstraten, who died on 11 February 1970.
From 1971 to 1985 he worked at the Victoria Hospital in Dichpalli (India). Here he met his second wife Elisabeth "Liz" Wright. The couple had a major influence on the quality of care for lip patients, both medical and social. The relationship between patients and nurses improved, but also the distrust and fear of the environment with regard to the leprazikhuis was largely eliminated during this period. From 1985 to 1990, Hogerzeil was director of the Southeast Asia region and member of the Medical Panel of Leprazending International. He then joined this organization as a medical advisor.
In later years Hogerzeil suffered from Alzheimer's disease. In December 2008 he got a stroke. On January 13, 2011, he died in his hometown of Ripon (England). Awards Source listing
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