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Emergency services (from local phone)
Police 155 Fire 199 Ambulance 112
Other emergency numbers
Esentepe Police 8236322
Forest Fire 177
Electric fault 188
Esentepe Belediyesi 8236258 / 8236344
Esentepe Health Centre 8236352
If you need to call emergency services explain exactly where you are, meet the emergency services at the gate and guide them to you. It is easy to get lost on site!
Take money, credit card, water, insurance cover, passport with you. You may be asked to pay towards your care and will have to go and buy any drugs needed.
Hospital Information
Girne(Kyrenia) Hospital - Small cottage type hospital, fine for basic emergencies
Phone: 8152266 / 8152254 (local)
+90 392 815 2266 (International)
Lefkosa (Nicosia) Hospital - Large general hospital
Phone: 2285441 (local)
+90 392 228 5441
Near East University Hospital (NEU) Lefkosa (Nicosia) - Excellent private hospital with full emergency services, teaching hospital with Professors and Doctors from all over the world.
Phone: +90 392 4440535
+90 392 6751000
The Near East University Training and Research Hospital has been established on the campus of Near East University, Lefkosa, North Cyprus. Within its future-oriented structure, it serves patients from all over the world. The hospital's state-of-art infrastructure experienced medical and support staff and unmatched technology are at international standards only seen at its western counterparts.
The NEU Hospital was planned as a patient-centered institution. The international standards according to the Joint Commission International (JCI) have been adopted in advance to become a world-class center to realize medical and other services for the patients.
It has a 55,000 square-meter closed area with 209 private, single patient rooms, 8 operating theatres, 30-bed Intensive Care Unit, 17-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a laboratory where a wide array of tests can be carried out, and a cutting-edge diagnostic imaging center.
To fulfill the diverse needs of the international patients an "International Patient Coordination Center" has been created. This facility arranges and coordinates the transfer of international patients and their companions to and from North Cyprus. Further more appropriate accommodations by translators will help them to communicate in their own languages. The Centre also arranges tours and social activities within the country. The objective of the Centre is to send the patients back their homes as healthy and happy individuals’
On-Site Management Company
You can go to the RESCO office on site just behind the supermarket and ask for help during office hours, 9.00- 4.30 Monday to Friday and Saturday morning only.
In emergency contact Elif from the RESCO office on: +90 533 833 2888
Many thanks to Geoff and Margaret and Jo Vince for all this information.
-- Edited by Mick on Thursday 28th of March 2013 08:33:29 PM