(Last Update: 11.01.2026) In this article, I would like to share with you my experiences after a serious health problem I had in recent years. What I wrote below tells you Emergency medical services in France I hope it will give you an idea.
One day in June 2014, French course As I was walking home from the exit, I suddenly felt a very strong pain in my heart. Since I had never experienced anything like this before, I first thought it was a temporary thing and ignored it, but when the pain started to increase gradually, I had difficulty getting home. It was as if someone was pressing my chest with a fist with all their might. I took my blood pressure and it was gone. I was home alone and was starting to have trouble walking, so it was too risky for me to go to the hospital on my own. I immediately called Devrim and informed him about the situation; colleagues in the office urgently Dial 18 and call an emergency medical team They said it was necessary. He told me that he would come home immediately and that I should definitely call for help until he arrived. Of course, I was hesitant at first. The fact that I had never experienced such an experience even in Turkey and that I was going to experience it in France and of course in French prevented me from reaching for the phone :) Because this was very difficult for someone like me who rarely gets involved in hospital and doctor affairs; Moreover, I wasn't really sure how I could explain my situation in French, but as the pain started to get worse every minute and my condition started to get worse, I started to fear that this might be a heart attack and I desperately called 18…
Fortunately, the person who spoke to me at the call center communicated with me in fluent French, and I tried to summarize my situation very well. At one point, another officer, to whom he transferred the phone, spoke to me in English for a while, but then it was no longer necessary. I realized that I could express my situation better in French :) I gave the address, hung up the phone and started waiting...
It wasn't even five minutes before I heard sirens. That's when I started to feel like something serious was happening to me. What is this? Five firefighters raided the house...
For some reason, emergency medical services in France are provided by the firefighters' medical team. Actually also SAMU (SamuThere is another "Hızır emergency service" called ) and its number is 15, but all the French I know use the fire brigade when emergency medical service is needed. Firefighter (to the pump) they were calling…
In front of me, looking like a French commando, like a pocket knife I was surprised when I saw all five firefighters. Especially when I saw the tools they brought, I started to think that my situation was worse than I thought. They immediately spread into the living room, one of them laid me down on the sofa and took off my clothes, the other one connected electrodes to my body and took my heart electrode, another measured my blood pressure, the other one took blood and checked my blood sugar, and the last one sat at the table and started filling out paperwork. At that very moment, Devrim arrived home and was surprised by what he saw. We talked later that at that moment, we both thought of taking a photo of the hall :) Because it was truly an incredible view. Of course, then, if we do this, they would chase with sticks But I really wish I could show you that moment.
At that moment, I learned that the doctor was on the way, and five minutes later, a doctor and two more firefighters arrived, making a total of eight people in the hall! I don't remember exactly what happened after that because there was a complete chaos at home. On the one hand, the area where my heart was was hurting severely, I was in my own trouble, and on the other hand, I was trying to understand what was going on. Because this was the first time something like this had happened to me in my life; Moreover, I was experiencing this in Paris…
The doctor said that this was not a heart attack, but it could be something serious, so I needed to be taken to the hospital. Of course, I didn't have the luxury of saying "no, I don't want it"... They carried me to the ambulance in a very interesting and very practical wheelchair. When I said ambulance, it was a fire truck in ambulance format... In fact, I felt like I was in this process. Kitten stuck in a tree, intervened by the fire brigade I was feeling like 🙂 Then they took me to the emergency room of the hospital in Neuilly… My experiences in the hospital emergency room Let that be the subject of a separate article… Of course, there is also the next one. Paris American Hospital has an adventure...
To Sum Up In case of any health emergency, all you have to do is 112Calling. Believe it They'll be there in five minutes. and they make the necessary intervention according to your health condition. Before, on the left and right, on the road, on the trail,Sapeurs-PompiersI would see the red minibuses with the sign "" and wonder why such vehicles, not the ambulance we know, made such interventions; It was my luck to understand why that day :)
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Thank you very much, may we all have healthy and happy days.
Get well soon, Mr. Ahmet. The emergency healthcare service in Paris is truly superb. In May 2015, I slipped down the stairs of the house we lived in and came down a few steps in a sitting position :) I was home alone. I called my neighbor across the street, he came to the house and called the ambulance, it took only a moment for him to arrive, I don't know how they came so quickly. They checked me at home and took me to the hospital, but then it was a disaster, we waited until the morning and now I gave up on my back pain, I went home, the next day I went to our family doctor and had x-rays etc. I had it removed and took it to the doctor. They make you wait a long time in the emergency departments of hospitals. Likewise, we went once for our baby, and we waited until the morning, I was stubborn, then I said I would return home without having him examined, and finally we managed to show the child :) But, I mean, the one who is healthy is the one who is sick. In Turkey, they take care of the emergency services immediately, but Paris is not like that, or maybe it's my luck, I don't know.
Thanks a lot. Those were really difficult days, now they are in the past like the story. I wish many healthy days for all of us.