Healthy in Linz

Linz offers its citizens comprehensive health services with an emphasis on counselling, prophylaxis and healthy living. With the General Hospital, the city is also engaged in the curative field and cooperates with many other health organizations.

Living and staying healthy – Linz makes it possible.

Emergencies

When giving notification of an emergency, please always provide the following information:

Where did it happen?
What happened?
How many people are injured/ill?
What kind of injuries/illnesses?

Telephone numbers for emergencies

• Ambulance +43 144*
• Fire Department +43 122*
• Police +43 133*
• Arbeiter Samariter Bund (paramedics) +43 2124
• Emergency medical service +43 141 (only on weekends from Saturday, 7 am to 7 am of the first sub-sequent working day)*
• Poison control emergency phone number +43 1 406 43 43
• Advice hotline 147 (counselling for children and adolescents for problems of any kind)*
• Helpline against violence against women +43 800 222 555*
• Rape hotline +43 732 602200
• Psychosocial emergency +43 732 651015
• Crisis intervention center +43 732 2177
• Emergency telephone ministry +43 142*

* These emergency numbers can be called anywhere in Austria without a prefix and at no charge!

Brochure "Healthy in Linz". Offers - Information - Tips

A well organized and easy to understand information brochure “Healthy in Linz” in a total of nine languages has been developed by the Integration Office of the City of Linz.

The contents of the brochure range from very practical information (health and accident insurance, prescriptions) to psycho-social counselling offers (“help for the soul”) and health topics specifically for women, all the way to tips for staying healthy (immunizations, eating, exercise). The brochure also contains an overview of doctors in Linz offering treatment in different languages.

You can download the brochure “Healthy in Linz” in nine languages here: