Isaura Borges Coelho
Portuguese nurse and activist (1926–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Isaura Borges Coelho (1926 - 2019), was a Portuguese nurse and activist. She is known for her efforts in favour of nurses' rights, for which she was imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese dictatorship's political police.[1]
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Born | Isaura Assunção da Silva (1926-06-20)20 June 1926 |
Died | 11 June 2019(2019-06-11) (aged 92) Parede, Portugal |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Other names | Isaura Assunção da Silva Borges Coelho |
Occupation | Nurse |
Known for | Spending four years as a political prisoner for organising nurses to object to rules barring married women from nursing |
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