Medical Aid

A visit to any health service in the Czech Republic will require health insurance. We strongly recommend that you take your insurance card with you. Based on the features of your insurance plan, you may get the needed service for free or for a fee that you may request back from your insurance company (always inquire with your insurance company about how to proceed or which medical service to visit).

Unless it is urgent, we recommend making an appointment in advance by phone or email, if applicable. Don't forget to take your insurance card, number, or any other document proving your insurance.

If you are a student, and your doctor’s visit makes you miss some classes or you are instructed to stay home or in the hospital for treatment, don’t forget to take a doctor’s note indicating the period of and reasons for your absence. Please provide it to your coordinator/study office to record your absence in IS MU. Make sure you are familiar with the absence rules at your MU faculty, as the absence policy may slightly differ faculty by faculty (e.g., the Faculty of Medicine may have special requirements).

Before seeing a doctor in non-emergency situations, you should consider getting a Czech insurance number (apply mainly to EU citizens or other countries on a special list – see tab Registration with Czech General Health insurance company).

If you need to see a doctor other than a general practitioner (a specialist of different kinds), you should first see your general practitioner (for students - preferably the university’s DP, Dr. Kateřina Kolářová, for university employees – find your GP and register – see the list of English speaking doctors) who will give you a referral to the given specialist. The following specializations are available without referral from GP: dermatology, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology.

medical aid

Emergency Hospital (injuries and emergency dental care)

Trauma Hospital of Brno

Ponávka 6
Tel: +420 545 538 111
Web: https://unbr.cz/en/ - only in Czech

Medical first aid service for adults: 

  • Opening hours: Mon–Fri: 5:00 p.m. – 10 p.m., Sat, Sun, holidays: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  • Phone number: +420 545 538 538
  • Registration fee: 90 CZK

Stomatological emergency:

  • Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 5:00 p.m. – 10 p.m., Sat, Sun, holidays: 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. The last patient will be treated 30 minutes before the end of surgery hours.
  • Phone number: +420 545 538 421
  • Registration fee: 90 CZK
  • Stomatological ambulance – groundfloor and 1st floor, Ponávka 10. To get to the ambulance, enter the gateway between the Ponávka 6 and Ponávka 10 buildings and continue across the yard to Koliště 41 (1st floor) back entrance

Surgical and Trauma services (sudden abdominal pain, injuries, acute urological conditions)

  • Opening hours: Mon-Fri: nonstop, Sat, Sun, holidays: nonstop
  • Phone number: +420 545 538 111
  • Registration fee: 90 CZK

Emergency Hospital for Children

In the case of children and young people (up to the age of 18) that are in need of urgent care, you should turn to the Children’s Hospital at Černopolní 9 - 1st floor of pavilion G – ambulatory area.

Urgent care services are available from 15:30 to 7:00 on weekdays and round the clock on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The contact number is +420 532 234 935 and it is available from 15:30.

When you arrive at the hospital, first you have to register the child at the Central Registration Office (Hall D). You will then be given instructions on what to do next.

In case of burns, you have to turn to the Children's Burns Center located in the Bohunice Hospital, Jihlavská 20.

Pharmacies

Most of the medicines available elsewhere can be obtained here, though not necessarily in every pharmacy. In case you need some kind of medicine in the evening, at night or over the weekend when shops are normally closed, there are several nonstop pharmacies:

EMERGENCY PHARMACY pharmacies

  • DR. MAX, Padowetz Pharmacy, Bašty 413/2, 602 00 Brno
    • Opening hours: Mon–Sun: nonstop
    • Tel: +420 542 213 531
  • K.E.I. PHARMA, s.r.o., Koliště 47, Brno
    • Opening hours: Mon–Sun: nonstop
    • Tel: +420 545 424 811
  • Dětská nemocnice – lékárna (Children’s hospital apothecary), Černopolní 9, Brno
    • Opening hours: workdays: 7:30 a.m. – 10 p.m., weekends/holidays: 8:00 a.m. – 10 p.m.
    • Tel.: +420 532 234 646

Make sure you have taken enough medicine with you to cover the whole stay in the Czech Republic. If you need a new prescription in the Czech Republic, use a prescription abroad within EU.

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