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

Tirana is Albania's capital and its economic centre by a wide margin, home to roughly 183,000 registered businesses concentrated mostly in trade, vehicle repair and food service, alongside a fast-growing IT and business-outsourcing sector. Under Albanian labour law, an employee unable to work due to illness obtains 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) taking over from day 15, for up to six months.

Booking a same-day appointment with a family doctor in Tirana isn't always simple — public health centres in busy districts can be booked out days ahead, and private clinics charge a premium for a walk-in slot. Our online service lets you submit your case to a registered doctor within minutes, with most assessments completed within 24 hours, without taking a half-day off work to sit in a waiting room.

Common situations we see from Tirana: IT and outsourcing staff needing certificates for short-notice sick leave, students at the Polytechnic University of Tirana or Tirana Business University needing medical proof to defer an exam, and international employees working in Tirana's outsourcing sector whose Albanian is limited but who still need compliant paperwork for their employer.

Tirana's labour market is overwhelmingly service-based — the tertiary sector accounts for more than 68% of the city's workforce against 26% in industry — and that shapes the paperwork it generates. Banks headquartered here, including Banka Kombëtare Tregtare, Raiffeisen Bank Albania and Credins Bank, along with the telecoms operators and outsourcing employers such as Teleperformance, which is Albania's single largest private employer with around 3,660 staff and two Tirana delivery centres, all run formal absence procedures built around a written medical report rather than a phone call. The same applies on the public side: Tirana municipality alone administers 14 administrative units across 1,110 square kilometres, and departmental HR expects documentation on file.

On the care side, Tirana is where Albania's health system concentrates and also where it gets busiest. The University Hospital Centre "Mother Teresa" (QSUT) on Rruga e Dibrës runs nine hospital buildings with 1,612 beds and more than 2,500 staff, handling in the order of 200,000 emergency presentations and 150,000 outpatient visits a year — volumes that make it the wrong door for a routine sick note. Private alternatives exist, led by American Hospital, which opened in December 2006 as Albania's first private hospital and is now its largest, but a walk-in slot there carries a private consultation fee. An online assessment sits between the two: a registered doctor reviews your case directly, without you occupying an emergency queue or paying for a private appointment.

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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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