Editing Recife (section)

===Medical facilities===
[[File:Recife, the Brazilian capital of social inequality color version.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Recife, one of Brazil's capitals with the highest social inequality]]
The [[Recife metropolitan area|Metropolitan Region]] of Recife has the third largest medical pool in Brazil, after [[São Paulo]] and [[Rio de Janeiro]]. Together they make up 417 hospitals and clinics with 72,000 employees in the Metro Area and more than 120,000 in the State of Pernambuco. The medical pool offers a total of 8,990 beds and, according to the Union of the Hospitals of Pernambuco, recorded in the year 2000 an invoicing of R$220&nbsp;million (Brazilian Reals). It is thanks to the pool that [[Pernambuco]] has access to more [[CT scan]] devices than more developed countries such as Canada or France.<ref>[http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/pt/noticias/1856/polo_medico_coloca_recife_no_centro_das_aten%C3%A7%C3%B5es Recife Medical Pool] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225110540/http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/pt/noticias/1856/polo_medico_coloca_recife_no_centro_das_aten%c3%a7%c3%b5es |date=December 25, 2009 }}</ref>

A large portion of the modern hospitals included in the pool are located between the neighbourhoods of Derby and of the Ilha do Leite. The Hospital Real Português de Beneficência Portuguesa em Pernambuco, or "Hospital Português" (Portuguese Hospital) for short, is one of the most renowned hospitals in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.recifehotels.brazilhotels.4k.com/Economy-recife.php |title=Economy Recife - Recife hotels at 4K.com™ |access-date=December 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119230513/http://www.recifehotels.brazilhotels.4k.com/Economy-recife.php |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many people from neighbouring states go to Recife for treatment, as it has the largest and best medical facilities in the [[Northern Brazil|North]]–[[Northeastern Brazil|Northeast]] of Brazil.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www2.uol.com.br/JC/_1999/1909/ec1909c.htm |title=Medical pool Ranking |publisher=UOL |location=Recife, Brazil |isbn=85-240-3919-1 |access-date=2007-07-18 |year=2006 |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226030428/http://www2.uol.com.br/JC/_1999/1909/ec1909c.htm |archive-date=December 26, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Recife has three universities / medical schools for medicine, two public, [[Federal University of Pernambuco]] and [[University of Pernambuco]]; and one private, Escola Pernambucana de Medicina FBV/IMIP (Medical School of Pernambuco).