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This is a list of hospitals and hospital networks in Belgium as of August 2019, sorted per region and per province.For each hospital or hospital network, the list includes if applicable their specialisation, the municipalities where they are located, any international hospital accreditation they have obtained as well as their number of hospital beds (an indicator of the overall size and ...
In 2018, Lier had a total population of 35,712. The total area is 49.70 km 2 making a population density (PD) of 720 per km 2. Lier is known for its beers (which include Caves), its patron saint St. Gummarus and Lierse vlaaikes cake. It is also home to the world headquarters of Van Hool, a global bus and coach
The Institute of Tropical Medicine (Dutch: Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, ITG; French: Institut de médecine tropicale, or IMT) is one of the world's leading institutes for training and research in tropical medicine and the organisation of health care in developing countries.
Lier railway station (Dutch: Station Lier; French: Gare de Lierre) [a] is a railway station in Lier, Antwerp, Belgium. [1] The station opened on 23 April 1855 on railway lines 13 and 15 . Until 1988, the station was also on line 205 , when this line closed.
Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven or University Hospitals Leuven, often shortened to UZ Leuven, is an academic hospital in Leuven, Belgium, associated with the university KU Leuven. It consists of three campuses as of 2022; Gasthuisberg, Pellenberg and Sint-Rafaël. [1] [2] The hospital has 1,995 beds and over 9,000 employees. [1]
The original tram route 6, also known as the "port route", ran between the Stuivenberg hospital and the present day Bolivarplaats (at the time, still the site of Antwerp-Zuid station), using the Lange Beeldekensstraat, Diepestraat, Brouwersvliet to the quays at the river Scheldt, and then following the quays all the way to its southern terminus.
The building upon completion (1531) From 1531 to 1661, it was the site of the world's first dedicated commodity exchange. As Antwerp took over the role of trade center from Bruges, it grew into a large metropolis with more than 100,000 inhabitants, including 10,000 foreign merchants, mostly Spaniards and Portuguese.
Deurne consisted mainly of sparsely populated farmland. However, as a direct result of the increasing wealth of the Antwerp population, many aristocratic estates were erected (the so-called "Hof van Plaisantie" was a specific rural estate, a bourgeois version of a château or country house).