Healthcare
The Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo is Suriname's academic teaching hospital, located on Flustraat in Paramaribo. It is listed by the Surinamese government among the country's hospitals, with a general switchboard and a separate emergency line.
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The Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo is Suriname's academic teaching hospital, on Flustraat in Paramaribo, and it is listed among the country's hospitals by the Surinamese government.
The two numbers to keep are on the government's own hospitals page: the switchboard on +597 442222, and — separately — the emergency department (Spoedeisende Hulp) on 442288. The same page gives 113 as the general alarm number. If you write one number down before travelling, make it the emergency line rather than the switchboard.
The hospital's own website is explicitly under reconstruction and carries almost nothing beyond a public relations extension and email address, so there is no online source for departments, triage arrangements, whether foreign travellers pay cash or can bill travel insurance, or English-language service. Those are all questions to put to your insurer before you need the answer.
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Apotheek Noord is a pharmacy at Jozef Israelstraat 95 in Paramaribo-Noord, dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medication. It accepts prescriptions via WhatsApp and is open six days a week, closed Sundays and public holidays.
Sint Vincentius Ziekenhuis, also known as the RKZ, is a general hospital at Koninginnestraat 4 in central Paramaribo. It runs a broad set of specialist departments plus an ambulance service and an in-house pharmacy.
Suriname’s regional primary-health service, running some 45 health centres with pharmacies along the coast from Albina to Nickerie and publishing the official on-call (wachtdienst) schedules.
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Information on this page is sourced from Overheid van de Republiek Suriname, Wikipedia, Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo.