Health and safety

In the Karlovac County area, there is no special clinic set up specifically for tourists. Tourists who are in need of healthcare services during the tourist season Karlovac County area can access these services, can provide them as stated in the instructions below: EU citizens travelling to or temporarily visiting Croatia, having been covered by the statutory health insurance in one of the EU member countries, are entitled to immediate health insurance services under the European Health Insurance Card with copayments. Health services are charged directly to tourists coming from a country which has not signed the Convention according to a standardized price list.

Services of private physicians and dentists are also at tourists’ disposal in which case a full price is charged for medical services.

»» Croatian Institute for Health Insurance: www.hzzo.hr

»» European Health Insurance Card: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=559&langId=en

In case of life-threatening emergencies or serious health-affecting conditions, call 194 for emergency medical assistance (sudden breathing difficulties, choking on a foreign body, cardiac and respiratory arrest, loss of consciousness, sudden chest pain, spasms(convulsions), speech difficulty, weakness or paralysis of a part of the body, facial distortion, traffic accident injuries and other sudden injuries (falls from height, gunshot wounds), abnormal bleeding, electrical and lightning injuries, hypothermia, heat stroke, drowning, medicine poisoning).