Health care and monitoring of development
Your growth will be monitored in school health care. If you catch the flu or get an ear infection, you will receive treatment at a health station. The City also provides various rehabilitation services.
Read more about our school health services
Read more about our health stations
Read more about our rehabilitation and therapy services
In some situations, you may need specialised health care. In Helsinki, the HUS New Children's Hospital focuses on serving children under the age of 15. As you grow older, your care will be transferred to HUS’s adult services.
Read more about the New Children's Hospital(Link leads to external service)
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A Helsinki resident with a developmental disability usually becomes a client of the Disability Outpatient Clinic with a decision on special care made by social welfare. Each referral is made on a case-by-case basis, sometimes immediately after birth, but typically before school age.
Read more about the Disability Outpatient Clinic and its services
Personalised dental care
If dental treatment is not possible at your local dental clinic, Kalasatama Dental Clinic offers individual dental care to clients with a developmental disability which takes into account the specific needs of each client.
Read more about dental care for persons with developmental disabilities
Sexual counselling
Sexual counselling provides advice and guidance on gender, body image, sexual health and relationships. Our conversations are confidential.
Read more about sexual counselling
Healthcare fees
Health station services, as well as medical rehabilitation therapy services, are free of charge to persons under the age of 18. School health care is also free of charge.
Hospital care, on the other hand, is subject to a fee. If you need medical care for more than seven days during a calendar year, no further fees will be charged for the additional days. You or your parents will need to provide the hospital with a statement about any previous treatment days.
Read more about healthcare fees(Link leads to external service)
If you think that you or your family cannot afford to pay a client fee, you may apply for a reduction in the fee or an exemption from the client fee.
Read more about the conditions for the reduction or non-recovery of client fees
If the client charges for health care and social welfare services grow too high for your family, the maximum payment limit may help you manage the expenses. The maximum payment limit, or ‘payment ceiling’, is the maximum amount a person can be charged annually for public social and health services. The maximum payment limit is currently 692 euros per calendar year. It is your responsibility to monitor whether you exceed the payment limit. Once you have reached your maximum payment limit, you will receive most of the services that count towards the payment limit free of charge until the end of the year. Fees charged from persons under the age of 18 are added to and taken into account together with the fees charged from their guardian.
Read more about the maximum payment limit
A young person's medicines also have an annual maximum limit on out-of-pocket costs, which refers to the maximum amount that you have to pay for your reimbursable medicines during one calendar year. Once you have reached the annual maximum limit, you are entitled to additional reimbursement. The purpose of the additional reimbursement is to keep the medicine expenses reasonable.
Read more about the annual maximum limit on Kela's website(Link leads to external service)