Health Care for students in English curriculum ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Foreign students should arrange health insurance covering the duration of their study at t of Medicine, Charles University. The insurance can be arranged either in their own home co Czech Republic at the beginning of the study. *========================================================================================= * Condition of health insurance and payment *========================================================================================= In case of presenting EU insurance card (blue), no payment is required (not valid in reque ERASMUS and other institutions like MRSA test, titres of antibodies against hepatitis…) Students from EU without Euro Insurance card or non-EU students must pay for the examinati they can ask their insurance company for repayment. The doctor responsible for following medical care is Dr. Rachel White E-mail: rachel.white(zavinac)fnkv.cz [ MAIL "rachel.white(zavinac)fnkv.cz Visiting hours: Thursdays: 7:00 - 14:00 Place: Building I, ground floor, please announce yourself at the recepti the hallway to the right of the main entrance • Students must first visit the Department for Foreigners - Information Center located in of the main entrance of the hospital on Šrobárova street (everyone speaks english there) come without this form, they will not be admitted. You must have proper identification a card with you. Maps and location info are located below. • If students would like same day results for blood work, they must come before 10:00. Cer will take longer, e.g. antibodies, MRSA, microbiology samples, etc.  • Appointment requests will not be accepted, it is first come, first serve.  Students requesting prescriptions must also come in person with the aforementioned paper prescriptions, if you do not have a Czech phone number, and/or if requested by the docto ahead that prescriptions will only be written on Thursdays. • My office is closed during the public holidays. You will be informed in advance via stud the faculty when the office is closed (due to congresses, my holiday etc.) • In urgent cases (you cannot wait until Thursday), use the emergency department in the ev 18:30-23:00 during the weekday and from 8:00-20:00 during the weekend) in building S, gr straight and to the right (ask for „POHOTOVOST“). You can also visit the Emergency unit at the Dept. of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicin FNKV. • In very urgent (emergency) cases, you can use the 24hours emergency (central admittance departments) in the building S, groundfloor on the left („CPIK“). • In case of urgent illnesses when you cannot get to a doctor and when transport to a medi urgent treatment is essential, ambulance services are organized. You can request assista the number 155 or 112. • You can use faculty SOS phone number +420 724 292 312 if needed. Please, use my email on cases, otherwise just come to my office on Thursday. *========================================================================================= * Hepatitis B Vaccination is compulsory for all students *========================================================================================= There is a possibility to apply the vaccine against Hepatitis B in the Vaccination Centre Occupational and Travel Health Clinic (Building I I, University Hospital Kralovské Vinohra In case you will take an advantage of this possibility, please, come firstly for the confi your study to the Study Department during office hours and then be so kind and make an app vaccination on the telephone number +420 267 162 685. *========================================================================================= * Fig 1: Map of the hospital *========================================================================================= *========================================================================================= * Scheme of the visit of the office for foreign students *=========================================================================================