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    The Medical Emergency Service can be reached at telephone number 1870.

    The Medical Emergency Service is intended for people that suddenly become ill after regular opening hours of the GP. The emergency service can be reached  after 4pm on weekdays and on weekends and public holidays.

    Personnel with psychiatric skills work in the evening shifts every day from 4pm to 11pm.

    Anyone who needs to contact the Medical Emergency Service please call 1870. The Medical Emergency Service is located in the halls of the National Hospital in Tórshavn.

    Opening hours:

    Monday-Friday at. 4pm to 8am.
    On weekends and holidays it is open 24 hours a day.

    Call the whole country

    The emergency service 1870 was put into force in Suðuroy, Sandoy, Skúvoy and Dímun. In this connection, a brochure was sent to every household in the southern part of the Faroe Islands.