Student health care and welfare services
Student health care
There are student health care services available in all of the towns where Seinäjoki
University of Applied Sciences has units. According to the Primary Health Care
Act (L66/1972, 14 §) all students are entitled to receive health care
irrespective of where their hometown is. Health care includes general health
care, medical care, dentistry, and ensuring the conditions in the study
environment are healthy.
Bachelor and master degree students
As a pilot service, the student health care services in Seinäjoki will be organized by The Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) at least until 31st of July 2014. (Also known as YTHS which is the Finnish acronym of the organization.) The services are available for those students who are studying in Seinäjoki UAS bachelor and master degree programmes and who have paid the FSHS fee. It is highly recommended that students use the FSHS services, because such high quality services are hard to find anywhere else with such low cost. After paying the FSHS fee (44 euros per academic year), the degree students have access to several services with little or no charge, including for example General Practitioner, Public Health Nurse, Physiotherapist, Psychologist, Dental health care and so on. The FSHS services do not apply to mobility students. More detailed information:
www.seamk.fi/fshs. All degree students who have not paid the FSHS fee must contact the local health centre for regular health services.
Mobility students
The mobility students arriving in different faculties of Seinäjoki UAS will be separately advised upon arrival about which public health nurse or health centre they should refer to when needed.
On-call duty and emergency services
FSHS
is open and the public health nurses are available only during the day on
business days. For acute treatment during evenings, nights and weekends please
contact the health centre of the study location’s town. During night time
(22.00–8.00) please contact directly the Seinäjoki Central Hospital, address
Hanneksenrinne 7.
General Emergency Number
for
ambulance/police/fire brigade: 112 (free calls)
Student pastor
Ms Aila Orsila works as the student pastor/chaplain at Seinäjoki UAS. Contact
her at aila.orsila(at)seamk.fi or +358 (0)44 580 6651.
For more information about the chaplain's services, see our website.
Information about other health care and social welfare services can be found
at our website.
