Health · Paramaribo-Noord
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.
Best for prescription refills, over-the-counter medicine.
Apotheek Noord is a pharmacy at Jozef Israelstraat 95 in Paramaribo-Noord, open Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 09:00 to 16:00, closed Sundays and public holidays. It takes prescriptions by WhatsApp on 8414263, with the main line on +597 453123.
We list it because it was the only pharmacy in Paramaribo we could find with its own live site publishing a verifiable address, phone number and set of opening hours, not because it is the nearest or the best. Several other pharmacies exist that we could not verify.
The gap here is one travellers should plan around: no government or health-ministry source publishes an after-hours or duty-pharmacy roster for Paramaribo. This pharmacy closes on Sundays and states no night service. If you take prescription medication, bring enough of it, and do not assume you can top up on a Sunday evening.
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Information on this page is sourced from Apotheek Noord.
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.
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.
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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