Exército Brasileiro

Land force of the Brazilian armed forces, with its high command at Brasília and units across the country, whose history is traced to the seventeenth century. Runs its own health service with military hospitals and a corps of medical and pharmaceutical officers, operates the Laboratório Químico Farmacêutico do Exército in Rio de Janeiro which makes medicines for the forces and public health programmes, and trains health professionals at its own military schools.