Beneficência Portuguesa De São Paulo
The Real e Benemérita Associação Portuguesa de Beneficência Military Order of Christ, ComC • Order of Merit (Portugal), ComM • Order of Merit (Portugal), GCM, also known as Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo or BP, located in the São Paulo, city of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the largest and most advanced private hospital complexes in Latin America. Situated in the Bela Vista, Bela Vista district, the Beneficência hospitals have approximately 7,500 employees and 3,000 doctors, and treat around 1.9 million patients a year in over 50 medical specialties. History The Beneficência Portuguesa was created by Luís Semeão Ferreira Viana and Joaquim Rodrigues Salazar, small Portuguese businessmen, who were joined by Miguel Gonçalves dos Reis. The official establishment of the benevolent organization happened on October 2, 1859, during a meeting at the residence of the Portuguese Aires Coelho da Silva Gameiro, later Baron da Silva Gameiro. Originally, the institution f ...
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São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ...
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