Social and health care services
The joint dental health emergency department of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen and Kirkkonummi handles urgent and sudden dental emergencies. The department is open in the evening, at weekends and on public holidays. Each respective municipality is responsible for providing its own daytime emergency services.
The cities in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and the municipality of Kirkkonummi have a joint unit for specialist dental care. The unit handles those basic health care patients who require specialist dental care and whose treatment does not require hospital facilities. The unit also serves as a training location for specialising dentists.
The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) offers high-level specialist medical care in all 23 of its hospitals throughout the province of Uusimaa.
http://www.hus.fi/
[HUS]
(09) 10023 telephone health service
Information about health, illnesses and health care services in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen. The telephone health service is available 24 hours on every day of the year. The service is provided by professional nurses with long experience in health care.
The Centre of Expertise on Social Welfare in Helsinki Metropolitan Area (Socca)
Socca cooperates with the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen. It is part of the network of the Centres of Expertise that became statutory in Finland in 2002.
http://www.socca.fi/
[Socca]
ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET
Suomi.fi
Health care services in Finland
http://www.suomi.fi/
[Suomi.fi and State Treasury]
Suomi.fi
Families and social services in Finland
http://www.suomi.fi/
[Suomi.fi and State Treasury]
Helsinki Deaconess Institute
Helsinki Deaconess Institute is a public-service foundation close to 140 years old. It produces social and public health care services, and it organises educational programmes in these fields.
http://www.hdl.fi/en/
[Helsinki Deaconess Institute]
The Federation of Mother and Child Homes and Shelters
The Federation of Mother and Child Homes and Shelters is a national child welfare organisation founded in 1945 to help single mothers and their children.
http://www.ensijaturvakotienliitto.fi/
[The Federation of Mother and Child Homes and Shelters]
Emergency youth shelters
Emergency Youth Shelters offer help and support when matters get out of control for people under the age of 19 and their families.
https://www.redcross.fi
[Red Cross]
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