The city is considered safer than Buenos Aires and Rosario, but it's not free of crime. Beware of pick pocketing on the local buses, above all when they are crowded (as they normally are). The avenidas of the Centro and Nueva Córdoba areas are safe around the clock, except the area near the Río Suquía from Monday to Thursday (at weekends there is much night-life there and it's safer). There are some dangerous suburbs, but they have no tourist attractions, they lie often near the outer ring-road (Avenida Circunvalación). Villa El Libertador and the Santa Isabel area, at the road to Alta Gracia, are considered the most dangerous districts.
There are no special health risks, apart from homeless dogs in the suburbs which can transmit rabies if they bite, but this is rare. In some areas, particularly in the South-East and in the eastern Río Suquía area water and air are polluted, which is a great danger for the people who live there, but this districts are normally outside of tourist's itineraries.
There are many hospitals. Two of the best of the private ones are the Hospital Privado and the Sanatorio Allende in Nueva Córdoba. If you don't have medical security, you will be attended at the public hospitals, above all the Hospital de Urgencias in city centre, at no cost, but if you can we recommend you to donate some money for there is sometimes lack of medicines, and other things.
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