Isaura Borges Coelho

Isaura Borges Coelho
Born
Isaura Assunção da Silva

(1926-06-20)20 June 1926
Died11 June 2019(2019-06-11) (aged 92)
Parede, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Other namesIsaura Assunção da Silva Borges Coelho
OccupationNurse
Known forSpending four years as a political prisoner for organising nurses to object to rules barring married women from nursing

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]

  1. ^ "Morreu Isaura Borges Coelho, lutadora antifascista". CGTP. Retrieved 21 July 2020.