Medical Certificate in Durrës: Online, Same-Day from €34.99

Durrës is home to Albania's largest port, handling around 95% of the country's maritime cargo and close to 6 million tons of freight a year, plus the country's busiest passenger port at roughly 1.5 million passengers annually — so shipping, logistics and port-services roles make up a large share of local employment. Albanian labour law requires a raport mjekësor (medical report), issued through the digital Family Doctor Portal, for any period of sick leave, with the employer paying 80% of salary for the first 14 days before the Institute of Social Insurance (ISSH) takes over.

Port and logistics shift work in Durrës doesn't always line up with clinic opening hours, and family doctor appointments in the city centre can book out well in advance during the busy summer tourist season, when the population along the coast swells. Our online service lets you submit your case any time of day, with most assessments completed within 24 hours, so shift workers don't have to choose between a doctor's visit and a day's pay.

Common situations we see from Durrës: port and container-terminal staff needing certificates for shift-related sick leave, seasonal hospitality workers along the Durrës Riviera needing fit-to-fly or sick leave certificates during the summer season, and students at Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durrës needing medical proof to defer an exam.

Durrës is a seasonal city with a year-round port attached. Albania drew 11.7 million foreign visitors in 2024, roughly 82% more than in 2019, and the coast either side of the city — Golem to the south, Lalzit Bay to the north — absorbs a large share of them, while the Albanian Tourist Union has put the national shortfall of skilled seasonal staff at around 30,000. In practice that means short fixed-term summer contracts in which an undocumented absence is expensive, and managers who ask for a written report on the first day rather than the third. The ferry timetable adds its own pressure: crossings to Bari run four to five times daily in summer and take about eight hours, while Ancona runs seven times a week and takes around sixteen, so anyone needing travel clearance is working to a sailing rather than an office day.

Away from the waterfront, Durrës is the country's second most populous city — about 101,700 people in the municipality and close to 196,000 across the urban area at the 2023 census — and its industrial base takes in a shipyard plus leather, plastic and tobacco manufacturing, with Teleperformance running a delivery site here as well as in Tirana. Spitali Rajonal Durrës carries the district's hospital load, and because the city sits some 33 kilometres from Tirana on the SH2 with rail links onward to Elbasan, Vlorë and Shkodër, patients who cannot get a local slot often end up commuting to the capital for a routine appointment. Heritage tourism feeds a second kind of request: the Roman amphitheatre in the city centre, the largest in the Balkan Peninsula and on Albania's UNESCO tentative list, and the Archaeological Museum founded in 1951, the biggest in the country, both employ guides and site staff whose peak season is exactly when clinics are busiest.

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   Complete assessment

   3-5 minutes. Select your certificate type, confirm Albania as your country, and answer relevant health questions covering your condition, the dates you need covered, and any employer, ISSH, or institution details you'd like included. No payment yet: you're only charged if a certificate is issued.

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   Doctor reviews your case

   Reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Albania, generally during business hours (9am-6pm CET/CEST, Monday-Friday). The doctor may request more information through the same portal, or in rare cases advise that your situation needs an in-person examination rather than an online certificate.

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   Receive your PDF

   Emailed the same day your certificate is approved, with a verification reference that your employer, ISSH, or the requesting institution can scan to help confirm authenticity directly.

Typical private consultation costs are a general range and vary by clinic and location within Albania.

The gap between our pricing and a typical private consultation generally reflects the difference between an in-person clinic visit, with its overhead of a physical location, receptionist time, and travel, and an online assessment built specifically around producing a same-day certificate. You are paying for the doctor's review and the certificate itself, not a waiting room, and the price is the same across all certificate types you might need. Pricing is shown in euros throughout, and no additional fee is added for delivery, certificate verification, or the doctor's review. The price you see is the price you pay if a certificate is issued.

Note on ISSH claims: Exact evidentiary requirements and payment rules for an ISSH sickness benefit claim are set by ISSH and are reviewed periodically, so a private certificate alone cannot guarantee that a specific claim will be accepted. If your certificate needs to support an ISSH claim specifically, confirm current requirements with ISSH or your employer's HR team before relying on it for that purpose.

Read the full Albania rules, glossary and national FAQ →

Every certificate for Albania is reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Albania, based on the information you provide about your condition and situation. A clinician will only issue a certificate after a genuine assessment. We do not operate on a pay-first, questions-later basis, and no certificate is guaranteed simply because a request was submitted. If a certificate is not clinically appropriate, for example because your case would benefit from an in-person examination or further investigation, the doctor will decline to issue one and you receive a full, automatic refund.

Registration details for the reviewing doctor can be provided on request, and we encourage you to reach out if you'd like to confirm credentials before relying on a certificate for something important. If you ever have a concern about the assessment you received, our complaints process is there for exactly that. We would always prefer to resolve a concern directly, and treat every case on its own facts rather than applying a blanket response. This process sits alongside, not instead of, any right you may have to raise a concern with the relevant professional body in Albania.

We don't rotate doctors between certificate types based on price. The same standard of genuine clinical assessment applies whether you're requesting a sick leave certificate or a sports fitness certificate. If a doctor has questions about your case, they'll ask through the same portal you submitted your assessment through, and you won't be charged until a certificate is actually issued.

Other cities in Albania

• Berat
• Elbasan
• Fier
• Korçë
• Shkodër
• Tirana
• Vlorë