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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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The Regionale Gezondheidsdienst is Suriname's regional primary-health service, and it is the organisation a visitor is most likely to need without ever learning its name. It runs 45 pharmacy locations inside its health centres and clinics along the coastal strip from Albina to Nickerie (three of them, Rust en Werk, Malangweg and Adhinweg, are currently not operational), supplied from a central store on Kasabaholoweg, with mobile pharmacy days at some outlying clinics.
More useful still, the RGD publishes the weekend on-call roster. Its wachtdienst page lists the duty GPs for the coming weekend district by district, with clinic addresses and both practice and home telephone numbers, and names the duty pharmacies (wachtapotheken) with their addresses.
Read the windows carefully, because they are narrow: duty surgeries and duty pharmacies open on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 09:00 to 10:00 and again from 17:00 to 18:00. Outside those hours the duty doctors deal with emergencies only.
If you need a doctor or medicine at a weekend in Suriname, that page, refreshed every week, is where the answer is.
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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 Regionale Gezondheidsdienst.
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.
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.
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