Duty services
Need care, medicine, or help for your pet? In distress? Here are the emergency and on-call services you can contact.
Medical assistance
Centre Antipoisons (antipoison centre)
Phone: +32 (0)70 245 245
Online: Opens in new windowwww.poisoncentre.be (FR/NL)
Centre des brûlés Bruxelles (burns centre)
Hôpital militaire Reine Astrid
Dispatching emergency : +32 (0)2 264 48 48
Phone: +32 (0)2 268 62 00
Online: Opens in new windowwww.hopitalmilitaire.be (FR/NL)
Red Cross
Phone: 105
- Croix-Rouge de Belgique (French-speaking service)
Online: Opens in new windowwww.croix-rouge.be (FR) - Rode Kruis Vlaanderen (Dutch-speaking service)
Online: Opens in new windowwww.rodekruis.be (NL)
Round-the-clock and duty services
Duty doctors
Garde Bruxelloise
Phone: +32 (0)2 201 22 22
Online: Opens in new windowwww.gbbw.be
- SOS Médecins (French-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 513 02 02
Online: Opens in new windowwww.sosmedecins.be (FR) - Brusselse Huisartsen Kring (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 242 43 44
Online: Opens in new windowwww.bhak.be (NL)
Duty pharmacies
Emergency phone: 0903 99 000 (€1.50/min)
Pharmacies post a list of the pharmacies open until 10 pm.
You can find a list of duty pharmacies between 10 pm and 9 am at the following bodies:
- the Association Pharmaceutique Belge (Belgian pharmacists' association)
Online: Opens in new windowwww.pharmacie.be (FR/NL) - the Union des Pharmaciens de Bruxelles (U.P.B.) (Brussels pharmacists' association)
Online: Opens in new windowwww.upb-avb.be (FR/NL).
Vaccines, serum and gamma globulin for single use are also available 24/7 at the following address:
Clinique générale Saint-Jean
Rue du Marais 114, 1000 Brussels
Online: Opens in new windowwww.clstjean.be (FR/NL)
Aids, STI (Sexually Transmitted Infections) and sexual health
- Aide Info Sida (French-speaking service)
Phone: 0800 20 120
Online: Opens in new windowwww.aideinfosida.be (FR) - Sensoa (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 238 68 68
Online: Opens in new windowwww.sensoa.be
Veterinary duty services
Vet Emergency (home emergency service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 644 24 24
Online: Opens in new windowwww.vetemergency.be
- SOS Vétérinaires (French-speaking emergency service)
Home: +32 (0)497 40 04 00
At the office: +32 (0)491 91 91 31
Online: Opens in new windowwww.veterinaires.brussels (FR)
Dentists on duty
Phone: +32 (0)2 426 10 26
Foundation Against Cancer
Cancerphone: 0800 15 801
Online: Opens in new windowwww.kanker.be (FR)
Psychosocial assistance
Helplines
- Community Help Service(CHS) (English-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 648 40 14
Online: Opens in new windowwww.chsbelgium.org - Télé-Accueil (French-speaking service)
Phone: 107
Online: Opens in new windowwww.tele-accueil-bruxelles.be (FR)
Chat-Accueil: Opens in new windowchat-accueil.org (FR) - Tele-Onthaal (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: 106
Online: Opens in new windowwww.tele-onthaal.be (NL)
Suicide prevention
- Centre de prévention du suicide (French-speaking service)
Phone: 0800 32 123
Online: Opens in new windowwww.preventionsuicide.be (FR) - Zelfmoordlijn (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: 1813
Online: Opens in new windowwww.zelfmoord1813.be (NL)
Protection against violence and mistreatment
SOS Violence
SOS Viol (rape helpline) (French-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 534 36 36
Online: Opens in new windowwww.sosviol.be (FR)
Child maltreatment
- SOS Enfants (French-speaking service)
ONE
Online: Opens in new windowwww.one.be/parents/une-equipe-sos-enfants (FR) - Vertrouwenscentrum Kindermishandeling Brussel (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 669 40 50
Online: Opens in new windowkindereninnood.be (NL)
Elder mistreatment
- SEPAM (Service d'Ecoute pour Personnes Agées Maltraitées (French-speaking service)
asbl Infor-Homes
Phone: +32 (0)2 223 13 43
Online: Opens in new windowwww.inforhomesasbl.be/fr/maltraitance (FR) - Brussels Meldpunt Ouderenmis(be)handeling (Dutch-speaking service)
Home-Info vzw
Phone: +32 (0)2 511 91 20
Online: Opens in new windowwww.home-info.be (NL)
Assistance for young people
- SOS Jeunes (French-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 512 90 20
Online: Opens in new windowwww.sosjeunes.be (FR) - Awel (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: 102
Online: Opens in new windowwww.awel.be (NL) - Teleblok (assistance to students during the exams) (Dutch-speaking service)
Chat on the website of Teleblok every day during the exam periods in January and June from 6pm to 11 pm
Online: Opens in new windowwww.teleblok.be (NL)
Drugs - support and prevention
- Infor-Drogues (information about drugs) (French-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 227 52 52
Online: Opens in new windowwww.infor-drogues.be (FR) - De Druglijn (information about drugs (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)78 15 10 20
Onlne: Opens in new windowwww.druglijn.be (NL) - Alcooliques Anonymes (Alcoholics Anonymous) (French-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)2 511 40 30
Online: Opens in new windowwww.alcooliquesanonymes.be (FR) - Anonieme Alcoholisten Vlaanderen (Alcoholics Anonymous) (Dutch-speaking service)
Phone: +32 (0)3 239 14 15
Online: Opens in new windowwww.aavlaanderen.org (NL)
Safety
Police emergencies
Phone: 101
Police stations
To find the nearest police station, see the section on police zones .
Child Focus
Phone: 116 000 (free inside Belgium)
Phone: +32 (0)2 475 44 99 (paying from abroad)
Online: Opens in new windowwww.childfocus.be (FR/NL)
Suspected gas leaks
Phone: 0800 19 400
Online: Opens in new windowwww.sibelga.be
Lost or stolen bank cards
Card Stop
Phone: +32 (0)78 170 170
Online: Opens in new windowwww.cardstop.be (FR/NL)