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Welcome to the European Medical Center, a clinic or group practice of general
and specialized Medical Doctors and paramedical therapists, especially
osteopaths and physiotherapists ("kinésithérapeutes").
There is also a blood sampling every morning.
We have a secretary (reception), which is open from Monday to
Friday between 8:30 and 17:00, but closed on Saturday, Sunday and
official Belgian holidays. The reception is also open every day
during the vacation/holiday seasons, but may be closed earlier
on the afternoon in the holiday season.
Please note that you are obliged to wear a mask in our Center!
The reception can help
you for all questions regarding our Center and our therapists and they
can arrange
appointments for most of the therapists - but some manage their schedules themselves
and some accept also appointments via Doctena
(EUMC)
– please check below.
After the lockdown, all the doctors and therapists are back again and
started or continued to see patients for treatment.
For any
question, just call the secretary: 02 / 280.13.42, or send an
email: e.m.c@skynet.be
(Mail, but the answer may need one
or two days).
Our Center is in the heart of the European quarter, in the neighborhood
"quartier des Squares" in Brussels at Square
Ambiorix 40, just 500 m away from Rond-point Schuman and its
European institutions,
metro and rail connections (see the plan of STIB, the Brussels' metro agency, as PDF,
for
Schuman). And a bus stop is directly in front
of the Center at Square Ambiorix.
Important information: According to Belgium law, you have to wear a mask in the Center and during treatments. You will find an individual seat in the waiting area with the name of your therapist. Please be on time, do not come earlier. You may not be accompagnied by anyone (except children: one parent is allowed only), nobody should wait in the waiting zone during your treatment. We are sorry for this, but this is the legal requirement for the Belgian exit strategy (déconfinement).
Important information: According to Belgium law, you have to wear a mask in the Center and during treatments. You will find an individual seat in the waiting area with the name of your therapist. Please be on time, do not come earlier. You may not be accompagnied by anyone (except children: one parent is allowed only), nobody should wait in the waiting zone during your treatment. We are sorry for this, but this is the legal requirement for the Belgian exit strategy (déconfinement).
Important information: According to Belgium law, you have to wear a mask in the Center and during treatments. You will find an individual seat in the waiting area with the name of your therapist. Please be on time, do not come earlier. You may not be accompagnied by anyone (except children: one parent is allowed only), nobody should wait in the waiting zone during your treatment. We are sorry for this, but this is the legal requirement for the Belgian exit strategy (déconfinement).
We work with the renowned international laboratory
Synlab,
which is one of the largest and best in Belgium.
For the moment, there is a very high rush for the request
for swabs and serology/antibody tests for detecting the
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) or its antibodies. With our greatest efforts,
we try to organise everything to manage all your reqeusts, but we are
overwhelmed
by the numbers. Therefore we ask kindly to excuse the inevitable delay.
And we can do blood samples or swabs only on appointments.
Please note also that the laboratoy is temporarily not able to guarantee
swab resultats within 72 hours! This means that swabs for people leaving
abroad can not be done within the prescribed delay!
We do the swabs ("frottis") in the nose and throat ("nasopharyngeal")
for PCR for
a direct detection of the coronavirus, which is obligatory for
entering into many countries and also when returning from red and orange
zones abroad. We do also the blood samples for
serolgy to detect antibodies against the virus, which proofs that you have
had already the infection. After the swab/sampling you get a code for
finding the results online. Later, the laboratory will send you an
invoice. The costs are on your own account, unless you fulfill the official
Belgium criteria for a reimbursement and unless you have a medical prescription
(which must also indicate clearly the official indication for being valid for
a reimbursement).
For the good organisation, make at first an appointment via our reception
(02 / 280.13.42 - but even there you may have difficulties to join
us due to
the high number of calls). Or you make your appointment online by Doctena
(Link). Please come to our Center some 5-10 minutes
in advance, not too early, and alone (only for children less than 12 years,
one parent is authorised to accompany them). Please wear your mask and bring
your Identity card with you, eitehr your Belgian or any other. Give also
your prescription to the reception, if you have one, but this is not
obligatory. At first you have to fill a form, which contains also the
criteria for which you may get a reimbursement by your Belgian assurance
("mutuelle"). Afterwards the nurse does the swap or blood sampling.
And that's it!
If you come for a "normal" testing, our nurse takes blood and
does also all kinds
of sampling in our Center:
The blood, urine and other samples
are collected several times every day and usually the results are
send to the ordering doctor already in the evening (except
for special tests, which may take some days).
Also for a blood sample, it is for the moment obligatory to make an
appointment in advance (due to the overwhelming requests for swabs),
via our reception (02 / 280.13.42) or online by Doctena
(Link).
Thank you for your understanding!
Stay healthy!
Your EUMC team
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