Bologna has always dominated life quality rankings, thanks also to its cutting-edge healthcare system which offers high-quality personalised services. Bologna has a wide network of public and private healthcare centres, totalling 6,000 hospital beds, offering services in all fields. Bologna boasts particular expertise in rehabilitation and reintegration, orthopaedics and orthopaedic-traumatological surgery, transplant surgery, cardiology and heart surgery, burns, major traumas and rare diseases. With the oldest university in the Western world, Bologna also has a long tradition of specialisation in research in life sciences. The main areas are: oncology, orthopaedics and prosthetics, assistive and rehabilitation technology, neurosciences, biotechnology, bioinformatics, genetics and immunology. The main players in this complex network are University of Bologna andRete Alta Tecnologia dell’Emilia-Romagna (a regional advanced technology network) laboratories and specialised centres, institutes and foundations.
Bologna is a nationally and internationally important productive hub in the biomedical products and devices sector. With an export value of 105 million euros, Bologna is the third Italian province for biomedical exports (France, Germany, Spain, Russia and USA are the primary markets). The Bolognese metropolitan area is also home tonumerous leading companies and multinationals operating in the healthcare sector. Bologna is particularly strong in prosthetics and technical orthopaedics (over 7,000 limb replacements per annum equalling 80% of the national total).
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