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File EU 987/2009 · 20

An emergency, without the card

Your wallet stolen the day before, the European card inside it, and a wound that will not wait for the trip home. Remember the official sentence: you can't be refused treatment. You may have to pay the full amount up front, and reimbursement plays out afterwards, with two written limits.

Item no. 1

10 pm, emergency desk

Second evening of a kayaking weekend in Sardinia. Yesterday your wallet vanished on the beach, European Health Insurance Card included. Tonight a slip on the rocks has opened your shin: the cut is deep, it needs stitches.

At the emergency desk, you are asked for your card.

Emergency reception10 pm
Reason
deep cut to the shin, stitches needed
Card requested
European Health Insurance Card
Card presented
none, wallet stolen the day before
Theft report
filed with the police, receipt on the phone

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