Many doctors’ surgeries only have limited opening hours. However, medical emergencies often occur at weekends, on public holidays or outside these hours. In life-threatening cases, the emergency number 112 should be dialed. However, many emergency rooms are overloaded. The medical and pediatric on-call service is available for acute cases of illness that are not life-threatening. It can be contacted throughout Germany day and night on 116117. The on-call service will provide information on how to proceed and refer you to a doctor in an emergency.
There is a dental emergency service for acute dental complaints. An online emergency service search for Baden-Württemberg is available from the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians:
https://www.kzvbw.de/patienten/zahnarzt-notdienst/
or by telephone on 01801 116, although it should be noted that each federal state has a different number and search function.
Medical emergencies often require rapid treatment with medication. There is a pharmacy emergency service for this. There are various online platforms that provide information on regional opening hours, such as Aponet:
https://www.aponet.de/apotheke/notdienstsuche/T%C3%BCbingen/%20/5
In addition, pharmacies often post a list on their doors showing which branch is open outside regular hours on which day.
Further emergency numbers can be found here:
https://im.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/sicherheit/wichtige-rufnummern-fuer-den-notfall/
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Apotheke. Foto: tünews INTERNATIONAL / Mostafa Elyasian.
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