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

Lviv has been an academic city for well over three and a half centuries. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv was established on 20 January 1661 by John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and has carried the name of the Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko since 1940. Lviv Polytechnic National University was founded in 1816. Between them they anchor a student and staff population whose paperwork needs are academic rather than administrative: a deferred examination, an extended deadline, a missed laboratory session, a place on a programme that has attendance requirements written into it.

That distinction between academic and administrative paperwork is the one worth getting right, because Ukraine keeps them in entirely separate systems. Statutory sick leave runs through the electronic лікарняний: a doctor creates a medical conclusion on temporary incapacity for work in the eHealth system, ЕСОЗ, an e-sick-leave record is generated in the Pension Fund of Ukraine's register, and the employer covers the first five calendar days before the Pension Fund takes over from the sixth. A university deferral touches none of that. Neither does an airline's fit-to-fly policy, a sports club's fitness requirement, or an insurer's request for a medical statement.

Our position in that landscape is narrow and worth stating plainly. Our doctors are registered with the General Medical Council in the United Kingdom. They do not hold ЕСОЗ accounts, cannot create a medical conclusion inside it, and therefore cannot issue, file, close or transmit a лікарняний or cause any statutory payment to begin. What they can do is assess the case you describe and, where the assessment supports it, issue a certificate recording that assessment with a verification reference on it. For a large share of requests that is precisely the document being asked for.

Lviv sits close to Ukraine's western frontier, and a good deal of the city's working life has long been organised around that position — cross-border trade and logistics, a long-standing services and software export sector selling into European clients, and a tourism and hospitality economy built on a historic centre that people travel a long way to see. Those are sectors where a short absence is documented to a private employer or a client rather than to a state register. They are also sectors where the person needing the document is quite often not sitting in Lviv on the day they need it, which is the whole practical problem an online assessment is trying to solve.

The practical case for a remote assessment in Lviv is ordinary and does not need dressing up. Getting a same-day slot with a family doctor for something you already know is minor competes with people who need treating, and if your registered residence is in one place and you are living or working in another, the clinic attached to that registration is simply not available to you. Where the obstacle is access rather than a need to be examined, an online assessment is a sensible route. Where you need examining, you need a doctor in a room with you, and no online service should tell you otherwise.

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   Complete assessment

   3-5 minutes. Select your certificate type, confirm Ukraine as your country, and answer relevant health questions covering your condition, the dates you need covered, and any employer 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 Ukraine, 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 or the requesting institution can use to help confirm authenticity directly.

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

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 statutory sick pay: paid sick leave for employed people in Ukraine generally requires an electronic sick leave certificate registered in the national eHealth system by the treating doctor, so a private certificate alone cannot guarantee a statutory sick pay claim. If your certificate needs to support a sick pay claim specifically, confirm current requirements with your employer's HR team or the Pension Fund of Ukraine before relying on it for that purpose.

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Every certificate for Ukraine is reviewed by a doctor registered to assess cases in Ukraine, 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 Ukraine.

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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