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Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo (AZP), Flustraat: Suriname's academic teaching hospital with a 24-hour emergency department. Switchboard +597 442222, publicrelations@azp.sr, azp.sr. Visiting hours are posted on site only.
Best for medical emergencies, serious illness or injury.
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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Outside weekday hours, Suriname runs on a published duty roster: named GPs per district and two duty pharmacies, open two hours in the morning and two in the evening. Where the official list is, how to read it, the most recent roster we saw, and the pharmacy with the longest ordinary hours.
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Information on this page is sourced from Overheid van de Republiek Suriname, Wikipedia, Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo.
Pharmacy at Kwattaweg 402 in Welgelegen listed as open 07:00–22:00 every day including Sundays, the longest published hours of any Paramaribo pharmacy we found. Reachable by phone overnight; not a walk-in 24-hour pharmacy.
Apotheek Noord, Jozef Israëlstraat 95, Paramaribo-Noord: open Monday to Friday 08:00–18:00, Saturday 09:00–16:00, closed Sundays and public holidays. Phone +597 453123; prescriptions accepted by WhatsApp. Prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
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.
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