Editing Brussels (section)

===Healthcare===
{{Main|List of hospitals in Belgium#Brussels-Capital Region}}
[[File:Hôpital Erasme Haupteingang.jpg|thumb|right|[[Erasmus Hospital]] in [[Anderlecht]]]]

Brussels is home to a thriving [[Pharmaceutical industry|pharmaceutical]] and [[health care]] industry which includes pioneering [[biotechnology]] research. The health sector employs 70,000 employees in 30,000 companies. There are 3,000 life sciences researchers in the city and two large [[science park]]s: Da Vinci Research Park and Erasmus Research Park. There are five [[university hospitals]], a [[military hospital]] and more than 40 general hospitals and specialist clinics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hospitals.be/|title=Belgian Association of Hospitals|website=hospitals.be|access-date=18 October 2017|archive-date=9 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009021230/http://www.hospitals.be/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Due to [[Languages of Belgium|its bilingual nature]], hospitals in the Brussels-Capital Region can be either monolingual French, monolingual Dutch, or bilingual, depending on their nature. University hospitals belong to one of the two [[Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium|linguistic communities]] and are thus monolingual French or Dutch by law. Other hospitals managed by a public authority must be legally bilingual. Private hospitals are legally not bound to either language, but most cater to both. However, all hospital emergency services in the Capital Region (whether part of a public or private hospital) are required to be bilingual, since patients transported by emergency [[ambulance]] cannot choose the hospital they will be brought to.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zorg-en-gezondheid.be/welke-taal-moeten-de-brusselse-ziekenhuizen-gebruiken|title=Welke taal moeten de Brusselse ziekenhuizen gebruiken?|website=zorg-en-gezondheid.be|publisher=[[Agency for Care and Health (Flanders)|Agency for Care and Health]]|language=Dutch|trans-title=Which language do hospitals in Brussels have to use?|access-date=18 September 2019|archive-date=4 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304191312/https://zorg-en-gezondheid.be/welke-taal-moeten-de-brusselse-ziekenhuizen-gebruiken|url-status=live}}</ref>