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France
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in France. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]
Germany
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Germany. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]
Greece
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Greece. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]
Hungary
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Hungary. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]
Using health services in Finland
Your entitlement to medically necessary treatment or to use all of the public health care services is based, among other things, on the country where you are covered by health insurance and on what grounds you are residing in Finland. Private health care services are available to all. Public health care services in Finland You […]
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Latvia
Accessing care You can obtain medically necessary treatment by presenting the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), when you are temporarily staying in Latvia. Medically necessary treatment refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to […]
Moving to Finland as an employee or self-employed person
When you arrive in Finland for the purposes of employment, the following factors affect your right to use Finnish public health care services and to receive reimbursement for the costs of medical care: You may be entitled to use public health care services in Finland and to receive reimbursement for medical care from Kela, even if […]
Health services for persons arriving in Finland from Ukraine: health services transferred from reception centres to wellbeing services counties according to municipality of residence
2.5.2023Read the article in Ukrainian — Read the article in Russian In Finland, the right to use health care services is usually based on your municipality of residence. If you have lived in Finland for over a year and have applied for a municipality of residence from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency, being […]
Norway
Accessing care You are entitled to medically necessary treatment, when you are temporarily staying in Norway. Medically necessary treatment usually refers to treatment that cannot wait for your return home. You may need such treatment in case of acute illness or accident. You can also receive treatment related to pregnancy and childbirth or to a […]