G 1A4 tel. The clinical staff include specialists in Tropical Medicine, Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Microbiology, Epidemiology and Immuno-parasitology and is supported by the specialist staff of the McGill University teaching hospitals. Approximately 1000 new patients are seen annually with a broad spectrum of infectious and non-infectious disease problems.
Patients are tourists, expatriates, missionaries, volunteers, immigrants and refugees.
During evenings and weekends, emergency patients are requested to come to the Emergency Department of the Montreal General Hospital where consultation with Tropical Disease Centre clinical staff can be arranged. Anyone with a fever, who has been in a malaria endemic country in the past 3 months, is considered a medical emergency until malaria is ruled out.