Furthermore, it took a while to install a Surgeon General in Germany; the Federal Ministry of Health was not founded until 1962, some months after thalidomide was banned from the market.
Ademais, tardouse bastante en Alemaña en crear a figura do Cirurxián Xeral, xa que o Ministerio Federal de Sanidade non se creou ata 1962, varios meses despois de que a venda da talidomida fose prohibida.