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

No. The assessment is completed online and reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Italy, so where you are in the country makes no difference to the process or the price. This page exists because people search for their own city, not because the service works differently in Catania.

No, and it is worth being clear about that. The INPS-linked electronic sickness certificate that Italian employers rely on for statutory sick pay is generally issued by your own medico di base, or out of hours by the guardia medica (continuità assistenziale), and is transmitted directly to INPS. Our certificate is a separate, complementary general medical document — for insurance, visa, education, sport or travel purposes. If you need paid sick leave through INPS, contact your medico di base or the guardia medica.

Yes, fit-to-fly is one of the certificate types we assess. Airline requirements differ and depend on how recent your surgery, illness or pregnancy stage is, so check the airline's stated policy and tell us what it asks for — the review is against that policy rather than a generic template.

Our certificate is €34.99 flat, which includes the doctor's review, the PDF and its verification reference. A private doctor visit in Italy commonly falls in the €50-€120 range depending on the type of consultation, and tourist-area clinics can run at the higher end. That said, a certificate is not a substitute for care: if you need to be examined or treated, see a doctor.

Same day, usually within 30 minutes of the doctor approving your case during business hours. Some cases take longer where the doctor needs more information from you before making a decision.

No. It is €34.99 whether you submit at nine in the morning or late on a Sunday, and there is no priority tier to buy. Reviews run through the day and approved certificates are sent the same day, usually within about 30 minutes of the doctor signing off during business hours. What actually slows a case down is missing information, so the useful thing you can do for speed is answer the questions fully first time. The price is also the same for all six certificate types, so choosing the right one costs nothing extra.

Yes, return to work is one of the six types, at €34.99 like the rest. It states that a doctor has assessed you and considers you fit to resume work, which is what most HR re-entry procedures are looking for. The limit worth knowing: where a role is subject to Italian occupational-health surveillance — safety-critical tasks, certain exposures, cleanroom or machinery duties — the fitness judgement belongs to the employer's own medico competente, and that visit cannot be replaced remotely. In practice plants often want both documents, in order, so ask HR which step you are at.

No, and any service promising otherwise is not describing a medical assessment. The doctor reviewing your case can decline it, or come back asking for more detail before deciding — and that is exactly the mechanism that makes the certificate worth anything to the person receiving it. If your case is declined because it needs examining in person, that is information you needed anyway: a document issued against a judgement the doctor could not honestly make would fail at the point it mattered. Being complete and accurate in what you submit is the single biggest factor in the outcome.

Usually general fitness, and usually because the agency or the venue has a house rule rather than because a law requires it. Catania's season runs on short contracts across the coast and the Etna tourist route, and agencies frequently ask new staff for a general fitness statement as a condition of placement — which is what the general fitness certificate is for, on the same €34.99 basis as the others. Two things it is not: it is not the food-handling training that hospitality roles may separately require, which is course-based and handled elsewhere; and it is not the occupational-health fitness judgement an employer's medico competente makes for roles under health surveillance.

For paid sick leave they will not need to, and that is the right outcome: the INPS certificato di malattia reaches their system from your medico di base without you handling it. Where a Catania employer does look at a document you bring is everything the INPS flow does not carry — a return-to-work confirmation, a fitness statement for a new placement, general medical documentation for an insurer or a training provider. So the question is not whether they accept online certificates in general, but which specific piece of paper is missing from a process. That is usually something the INPS route was never going to supply.