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

Korçë, near the Greek border, has long been a centre for education and culture — home to Albania's first Albanian-language school in 1887 and its first girls' school in 1891 — and today combines Fan S. Noli University with Birra Korça, the country's oldest brewery, founded in 1928 and still producing around 10 million litres of beer a year. Under Albanian labour law, sick leave requires a raport mjekësor (medical report) through the digital Family Doctor Portal, with the employer covering 80% of salary for the first 14 days and the Institute of Social Insurance (ISSH) covering it from day 15, for up to six months.

Korçë sits on a plateau at nearly 850 metres above sea level, and clinic appointments in the centre can fill up quickly during term time when the student population is at its highest. Our online service lets you submit your case any time of day, with most assessments completed within 24 hours, so you're not waiting on a free slot during a busy university term.

Common situations we see from Korçë: brewery and food-production staff needing certificates for shift-related sick leave, students at Fan S. Noli University needing medical proof to defer an exam, and employees at Greek-owned and joint Albanian-Greek businesses, a significant source of local investment, needing paperwork that meets Albanian employer requirements.

Korçë is one of the few Albanian cities with a genuine winter season rather than a summer one. Bigëll-Dardhë, above the city, is the most developed ski area in the country — around 1.3 kilometres of piste served by two lifts — with Voskopojë and Vithkuq adding mountain and snow tourism of their own, so the hospitality demand curve here peaks when the coast is empty. That has two consequences worth knowing: winter injuries and respiratory illness arrive in concentrated bursts, and the guesthouse and restaurant staff who serve them are on short contracts where an undocumented day off is a contractual problem rather than just a rota gap.

The regional hospital on Bulevardi Fan Noli carries the whole district, covering both the city and the plateau villages around it. Against a catchment that size, a routine sick note is never what its emergency and inpatient teams are set up to prioritise. Beyond Birra Korça, the local employer base runs to knitwear, handmade rugs and carpets, textiles, flour-milling and sugar-refining, and Greek capital makes up the majority of foreign investment in the city — one reason employers here are comfortable with documentation issued and checked remotely, and part of the same cross-border relationship that has supported a bilingual Greek-Albanian school in Korçë since 2005.

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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.

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