brazilwonders: Ana Justina Ferreira Néri (December 13, 1814 – May 20, 1880) was a Brazilian nurse, she is considered the first in Brazil. She is best known for her volunteer work with the Triple Alliance during the Paraguayan War. In 1865, Brazil joined the Triple Alliance in the Paraguayan War, and Ana’s sons were all called upon duty, in addition to both her brothers. Unhappy with the fact that she would stay away from all the men in her family, she wrote a letter to Manuel Pinho de Sousa Dantas, governor of Bahia, offering to take care of injured soldiers of the Triple Alliance for the duration of the conflict. Later that year, Ana left Bahia for the first time in her life, assisting the Army’s health corps, which was small and had little material. She started working alongside Vincentian nuns in a hospital in Corrientes, where she would take care of more than 6,000 hospitalized soldiers. Ana founded a nursing house in the Paraguayan capital, then occupied and besieged by the Brazilian Army. For that purpose, she used personal financial resources that she inherited from her family. She worked selflessly there until the end of the war. At the end of the war, in 1870, Ana returned to Brazil and received several honors, among them the distinctions of silver and humanitarian campaign medals. Emperor Pedro I granted Ana, via decree, a life-long pension, which she used to provide education for the four orphans that she had brought from Paraguay with her.
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