Eloísa Díaz Inzunza (1866 to 1950) was a Chilean physician who was the first woman in South America to earn a medical degree. Born in Santiago, she entered the School of Medicine of the University of Chile in 1880, soon after a law allowed women to study there, and graduated in December 1886 with a thesis on puberty in Chilean women. She began work at San Borja Hospital in 1891, taught and served as a doctor at the Escuela Normal, and from 1898 held the post of school medical supervisor, first for Santiago and then for Chile, for more than thirty years. Appointed director of the School Medical Service in 1911, she introduced school breakfasts and mass vaccination of students and ran campaigns against alcoholism, rickets and tuberculosis. She also founded kindergartens and clinics for the poor and helped found the National Council of Women of Chile in 1919.
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25 June 1866-1 November 1950) was a Chilean medical doctor
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She was the first female medical student to attend the University of Chile, and the first woman to become a doctor of medicine in South America.
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where she implemented school breakfasts and mass vaccination of students, as well as campaigns to combat alcoholism, rickets and tuberculosis
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