Welcome to our Section Clinical Tropical Medicine
Our aims are to:
- further develop Heidelberg’s centre of clinical tropical medicine on both a national and an international level
- strengthen our position at Heidelberg Medical School (HeiCuMed) regarding both clinical tropical medicine and diseases associated with travel or migration
- contribute to improving/addressing any health concerns associated with global and neglected diseases by means of an international network of institutions with research in clinical tropical medicine
Call phone for malaria and other urgent tropical medical emergencies
following times for the emergency departments (via the emergency outpatient clinic of the Medical Clinic Tel: 06221 56-8782) of the hospital and for gastro-wake and gastro-intensive care:
On weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00,
on weekends continuously from 7:00 to 21:00.
This service is staffed by senior physicians and can also be used by other hospitals in justified cases (through the mediation of the emergency outpatient clinic at UKHD), e.g. because of malaria patients during the critical therapy phase.
