You can contact the emergency service if you have medical problems outside your doctor’s usual surgery hours. The following emergency services are available in Cologne:
Emergency paediatric service
There are three central emergency paediatric surgeries in Cologne. All surgeries are open 365 days a year and you can attend at the following times with children aged 0 to 18 without arranging a prior appointment.
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays from 7 to 11 p.m.
- Wednesdays and Fridays from 1 to 11 p.m.
- Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
In the event of an emergency after 11 p.m. please contact your nearest children’s hospital’s outpatients by calling the central number for the general emergency medical service on 116 117 .
Addresses for emergency paediatric surgeries:
- Emergency paediatric service at the Städtische Kinderkrankenhaus Riehl
Amsterdamer Straße 59
50735 Cologne
Phone 0221 / 8888420 - Emergency paediatric service at the Universitäts-Kinderklinik
Building 26 (Access via the Gleueler Straße 115 entrance)
Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 9
50937 Cologne
Phone 0221 / 47888999 - Emergency paediatric service at the Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein
Urbacher Weg 19
51149 Cologne
Phone 02203 / 9801191
Poisoning
Please contact the poisoning centre at the Universitätsklinikum Bonn, which is available 24 hours a day.
Phone: 0228 / 19240
Emergency medical and ophthalmic service
If you urgently require medical assistance you can use the nationwide free number for the general medical emergency service 116 117 at night and at the weekend. You do not need to dial an area code.
You can obtain information about the availability of emergency service surgeries in the Cologne city districts from the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung.
For deaf people
People with hearing and/or speech impairments can use the fax number 0800 / 5895210. The Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV) has provided a fax template for this:
Emergency dental service
You can reach the emergency dental service on 01805 / 986700. They will give you the phone numbers of dentists who have an emergency service and you can then call them directly.
Emergency services
In the event of life-threatening illnesses or accidents please call the emergency services immediately: Phone 112
You can find guidance about who to contact in any event in the Emergency Services section.