Veterinary emergency services are intended for animals requiring urgent veterinary care that cannot wait for office hours.
For veterinary emergency services, North Karelia is divided into four areas, each served by one on-call veterinarian outside regular office hours:
If your call is forwarded to voicemail, please leave a message. The veterinarian will return your call as soon as possible.
If you have not been contacted within 30 minutes, please call again. If you do not receive a callback within one hour, or if the emergency service line does not connect to the veterinarian's number, you may contact the on-call veterinarian in another area.
Urgent veterinary care outside office hours is provided as part of emergency veterinary services. The emergency veterinary services may be organised by a wellbeing services county, municipality or several municipalities together.
You are usually expected to take small animals to the veterinarian but treatment for large animals is provided in the place where they are kept.
The emergency service may be provided by municipalities or wellbeing services counties, or it may be outsourced to a private service provider.