Lohja Emergency Department

Before coming to the emergency department, call the Medical Helpline at 116117. In an emergency, always call 112.

If you already have a referral to the emergency department, you do not need to call the Medical Helpline.

The most common symptoms that you should always have checked in an emergency department: 

• Chest pain
• Symptoms of paralysis such as sudden flaccidity or incapacity of a limb or speech difficulties
• Profuse bleeding (e.g. vomiting of blood, large bleeding wound)
• Major injuries and bone fractures
• Sudden severe headache
• Respiratory distress
• Sudden onset of severe or worsening abdominal pain
• Mental health problems requiring urgent treatment
• Fever in a newborn: babies under 3 months old must be taken directly to the Emergency Clinic at Jorvi.
• Convulsive child

The following are not emergency cases:

• minor injuries (bruises, sprains, cuts that are no longer bleeding)
• infection symptoms (fever, flu)
• limb or back pain
• headache
• nosebleed

If you need urgent treatment between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., contact the West Uusimaa wellbeing services county’s health centers.

At the emergency department, we always assess the need and urgency of treatment first. Based on this, you will be referred to a nurse or physician, or to your local health center. Patients are treated in the order of urgency, not in the order of arrival. Because of this, a patient who has arrived after you may be admitted for treatment before you.