Vaccination for abroad

Maybe you are soon going to travel abroad. But to go discovering another country is not always without risk. What are the preventive measures to take ? Is your vaccination cover still up to date ? Do you know which are the sanitary risks linked to your destination ?

It is in order to answer to those questions that the Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Security and Environment keeps an updated list of registered travel medical centres.

Within the frame of its international obligations, Belgium has to apply and enforce respect of the World Health Organization (WHO) international sanitary rule. It is the ICM directorate that is in charge of that mission within the Federal Public Service.

This rule foresees amongst others the registration of centres in charge of vaccine administration against yellow fever, this vaccine being required in certain countries.

Mechanic vaccination against yellow fever is insufficient to guarantee optimal risk management for travellers. That is why conventions have been agreed upon with a certain number of centres that provide such a service. They also have to be able to insure the follow-up of patients back from their trips.

Registered centres apply travel medicine recommendations approved by the “Conseil supérieur d’Hygiène” (Health Council) and updated on a yearly basis.

Yellow fever vaccination centres

Antwerp :

Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis

• Polyclinic of the Institut de Médecine Tropicale, Kronenburgstraat 43/3, 2000 Antwerp, +32-(0)3/247 64 05 (from 14:00 to 16:00 without appointment)

Bruges :

Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis

• AZ St.-Jan, Travel Clinic, Ruddeshove 10, 8000 Bruges, +32-(0)50/45 23 20 (with appointment)

Brussels :

• Medical Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rue de Namur 59, 1000 Brussels,
  +32-(0)2/501 35 11 (from 09:00 to 11:30 and from 14:00 to 15:30 without appointment)
• Travel Clinic, Hôpital St Pierre, rue Haute 290, 1000 Brussels, +32-(0)2/535 33 43 (with appointment)
• Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis: Travel clinic, Hôpital Universitaire Erasme, route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, +32-(0)2/555 72 00 (with appointment)
• Polyclinic, Cliniques Universitaires V.U.B., av. du Laerbeek 101, 1090 Brussels, +32-(0)2/477 60 01 (with appointment)
• Vaccination centre, cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Av. Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels, +32-(0)2/764 21 22 (with appointment – Monday, Thursday and Friday mornings from 08:30 to 12:30)

Charleroi :

Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis

• Polyclinic of the Hôpital civil de Charleroi, blvd Zoé Drion (s/n), 6000 Charleroi,
  +32-(0)71/92 23 07 (with appointment)

Ghent :

Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis

• Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent, Travel Clinic, Dienst Algemene Inwendige Ziekten, Polikliniek 2, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, +32-(0)9/240 23 50 or +32-(0)9/240 23 45 (with appointment)

Hasselt :

Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis

• Vaccinatiecentrum van het Virga Jesse Ziekenhuis, Stadsomvaart 11, 3500 Hasselt,
  +32-(0)11/30 97 40 (with appointment)

Leuven :

Also vaccination against Japanese encephalitis

• Universitair Ziekenhuis Gasthuisberg, Dienst Inwendige Ziekten, Herestraat, 49, 3000 Leuven, +32-(0)16/34 47 75 (with appointment)

Libramont :

• Centre hospitalier de l’Ardenne, av. de Houffalize 35, 6800 Libramont,
  +32-(0)61/23 87 00/01 (with appointment)

Liège :

• Institut provincial Ernest Malvoz, quai du Barbou 4, 4020 Liège, +32-(0)4/344 79 54 (with appointment)
• CHU de Liège – Médecine des Voyageurs – Sart Tilman : Domaine universitaire, B 35, 4000 Liège, +32/(0)4/366 77 86 (with appointment)
• CHU de Liège – Médecine des Voyageurs – Polyclinique Brull : Quai Godefroid Kurth, 45, 4000 Liège, +32-(0)4/270 30 33 (with appointment)

Mons :

• Centre Inter-Universitaire Ambroise Paré, Consultation de Médecine Interne, blvd Kennedy 2, 7000 Mons, +32-(0)65/39 25 60 (with appointment)

Namur :

Temporarily, only vaccination against yellow fever

• Centre Hospitalier Régional de Namur, avenue Albert Ier 185, 5000 Namur, +32-(0)81/72 71 42 (with appointment)

Ottignies – Louvain-La-Neuve :

• Centre de vaccinations, Clinique St-Pierre, Av. Reine Fabiola 9, 1340 Ottignies – Louvain-La-Neuve, +32/(0)10/43 73 10 (for appointment) - +32-(0)10/43 74 63 (information)

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg :

• Centre hospitalier de Luxembourg, rue Barblé 4, L – 1210 Luxembourg -
  +352-44 11 30 91 (with appointment)