Hospital Samaritano De Sao Paolo Hospital in Brazil

Receive people of all faiths, races, and nationalities. This was the seed that generated the Samaritan Hospital, inaugurated on January 25, 1894.
The idea came when the Chinese immigrant Jose Pereira Achao was refused care by the Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Sao Paulo for being Protestant. At the time, the rules dictated that every non-Catholic patient needed to be indoctrinated and converted to be cared for. Achao received treatment for typhoid only after converting. Before dying in 1884, however, he donated all his possessions to the Presbyterian Church with the intention of creating a hospital that would serve all without distinction.

A group of British, American, and German immigrants, supported by traditional Paulista families, adopted the idea and took the initiative to found the Evangelical Hospital Society in 1890. Four years later, the society became the Samaritan Hospital.