The city of Äänekoski will join the environmental healthcare cooperation area of the city of Jyväskylä from January 1.1.2021, XNUMX
In the future, the city of Jyväskylä will also be responsible for all environmental healthcare services in the area of the city of Äänekoski. The task of environmental health care is to promote the health of individuals, the population, animals and the environment, and to prevent diseases and accidents.
Environmental health care takes care of the following tasks belonging to the municipalities:
- Food control (e.g. inspections of food premises and treatment of food poisoning)
- Health protection control (e.g. domestic water control, school inspections and indoor air issues)
- Veterinary care duties (animal protection, animal disease control, basic veterinary services and urgent veterinary assistance. Urgent veterinary assistance also outside office hours).
- Supervisory duties according to the Tobacco and Medicines Act (e.g. tobacco sales permits and smoking bans for housing corporations).
Äänekoski will not establish its own office, but services will be provided from Jyväskylä as well as to other municipalities in the cooperation area. The majority of environmental health care services can now be handled electronically, by phone or on site at the destination. The environmental healthcare office is located in Jyväskylä at Rakentajatalo, at Hannikaisenkatu 17.
Regarding the daytime practice services of veterinary care, a cooperation agreement will be concluded with Laukaa municipality. Veterinarian services are therefore handled by the Laukaa municipal veterinarian as before. In the future, the tasks of animal protection and animal disease control will be handled from Jyväskylä. The environmental health cooperation area of the city of Jyväskylä will cover the area of 10 municipalities from the beginning of next year (Hankasalmi, Joutsa, Jyväskylä, Luhanka, Multia, Muurame, Petäjävesi, Toivakka, Uurainen and Äänekoski).
More information about the city of Jyväskylä's environmental healthcare services: https://www.jyvaskyla.fi/ymparisto/ymparistoterveys.
For more information:
environmental health manager Hanna Yksjärvi, tel. 014 266 2376, hanna.yksjarvi[at]jyvaskyla.f
News published 18.12.2020, modified 6.11.2023/12/43 at XNUMX:XNUMX