Student health care and welfare
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 in Seinäjoki
The student health care services in Seinäjoki will
be organized by The Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) from 1 September 2011
on. The services are available for students studying in Seinäjoki UAS bachelor
and master degree programmes. 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 (42 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 exchange students. More detailed information:
www.seamk.fi/fshs.
Exchange students in Seinäjoki
Exchange
students in studying in the faculties located in Seinäjoki may contact the
public health nurses in Business School (address: Koulukatu 41) and School of
Health Care and Social Work (address: Koskenalantie 17).
All students in other locations of Seinäjoki UAS
It is
possible that in near future also the other towns/municipalities, where
Seinäjoki UAS offers education, will enter into an agreement with FSHS. Until
then the health care services for Seinäjoki UAS students in Ilmajoki, Kurikka (Jurva),
Kauhajoki, Kauhava and Ähtäri will be arranged by these municipalities.
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.
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