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From Kairouan, a transfer to Tunis or Sfax, or a journey to an airport, takes at least one hour and often two to three. Patient comfort matters as much as the route. Here are the key details.
Travel time to Tunis depends on traffic entering the capital.
On these journeys, patient comfort comes first: lying or semi-seated position, breaks if the patient's condition permits, and space for an accompanying person. If monitoring is required as far as Tunis or Sfax, medicalised transport is decided with the patient's treating physician.
As Kairouan has no airport, travellers most often use Enfidha-Hammamet or Monastir, both about one hour by road. When travel times are similar, the ticket determines which airport to use. Provide the booked airport, flight number and scheduled time. For departures, pickup is planned around check-in; for arrivals, around landing and the time needed for the passenger to exit. See airport ambulance transfers.
Contact EMS on +216 48 024 000 or WhatsApp, 24/7, with the pickup address, destination, appointment or flight time and how the patient travels. A coordinator calls back within 10 minutes and then sends a quote: transport is confirmed only after your agreement. See long-distance medical transport and private ambulance in Kairouan.
For a life-threatening emergency, call SAMU first on 190. EMS is a private medical transport service and does not replace public emergency services.
In a life-threatening emergency or an acute deterioration, contact the competent public emergency services immediately. A request sent by form or WhatsApp does not confirm a transport booking.
Just over 150 km, about 2 h 30 by road depending on traffic entering Tunis, via RN2 to Enfidha and then A1.
About 140 km and about two hours by road. Sfax has Habib Bourguiba and Hédi Chaker University Hospitals.
Enfidha-Hammamet (around 60 km via RN2) or Monastir (about 70 km): both about one hour by road. The flight ticket determines the airport.
If monitoring is required as far as Tunis or Sfax, medicalised transport is decided with the patient's treating physician.
Call SAMU first on 190. EMS is a private service and does not replace public emergency services.
Kairouan is an inland city, with no coastline and no airport of its own, about an hour by road from Sousse. Many of the patient transports here link the city of the Aghlabids with the university hospitals of the Sahel, Sfax or Tunis, and then bring patients back home. Based in Monastir, the EMS team works regularly in Kairouan and across its governorate on these planned journeys.
Find out more02A journey between two regions is not organised like a trip across town: the duration, any stops and the patient's comfort weigh as heavily as the route itself. EMS prepares these transports case by case.
Find out more03When a patient has a flight to catch or has just landed, the ground leg has to be coordinated precisely with the flight schedule. EMS handles that link between the airport, the care facility and the address concerned.
Find out more04There is no single rate for medical transport. The price is built from the actual journey and the resources it requires, which is why we produce a quote for every request.
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