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DIRECTORY
Hospitals
Allgemeines Krankenhaus
Währinger Gürtel
18–20, 1090 Vienna.
Tel (01) 404 00-0.
Krankenhaus der
Barmherzigen Brüder
Fire engine
(Brothers of Mercy Hospital),
Johannes von Gott-Platz 1,
1020 Vienna. Tel (01) 211 210.
Important Numbers
and Websites
International Pharmacy
Kärntner Ring 17, Vienna.
Police car Tel (01) 512 28 25.
Lost Property Office
Siebenbrunnenfeldgasse 3,
1050 Vienna.
Tel (01) 4000-8091.
Pharmacy Information Line
Vienna. Tel 1445.

Ambulance
to pay for medical services are emergency, call an
cared for at the Krankenhaus ambulance (Rettungsdienst).
der Barmherzigen Brüder
(Brothers of Mercy Hospital), Health Precautions
which also runs a free emergency
dental clinic. In a medical Tick-Borne Encephalitis is a
possible danger wherever there
are deciduous trees in Austria.
Only a tiny proportion of ticks
carry the disease, which may
cause brain damage and in Façade of a typical Apotheke (pharmacy)
some cases lead to death. in Vienna
Most Austrians and foreign
residents are inoculated (pharmacy) for advice on
against it. Inoculation is medicines and treatment.
done in several stages, Pharmacies display a red “A”
but is not usually sign and operate a night rota
recommended for holiday- system. Any closed pharmacies
makers. The risk of infection will display the address of the
is minimal, but to be on the nearest one open, and the
safe side, if you are bitten, do Pharmacy Information Line
not remove the tick but go to also has details of some which
an outpatients department. are open.
Apart from medicines,
pharmacies also sell some
Pharmacies
herbal remedies. Reformhäuser
If it is not an emergency, it is specialize in such products
Policewoman Fireman best to go to an Apotheke and natural healthcare.

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