This formidable company has won the Kyiv Post’s title of the best private medical health clinic for the past five years running. Ukraine’s emerging middle class is joining the expat community in relying on state-of-the-art private health care as the alternative to the roll-your-dice and pay-a-bribe experience offered by state-run medical institutions.
With clinics on both banks of the Dnipro, Boris has extended its services to include brain and spinal cord surgery. The left bank facility looks and feels like a modern hospital with walk-in clinics for children and adults, as well as a dental clinic. Test laboratories, operating theaters and specialized medicine, from neurology to dermatology, are all available.
Boris’s fleet of ambulances most closely resembles those Westerners are accustomed to seeing at home. The number to call if you or your friend are in a medical pinch is 238-0000, which works round the clock. But make sure you have $200 handy to pay for an ambulance within city limits.
And remember: really bad hangovers are no reason to call an ambulance, although the injections the ambulance drivers have in their medical bags do the trick at a price (Boris does take credit cards).
Boasting a customer base of 500 patients every day, the 100 percent Ukrainian-owned Boris will celebrate 15 years on Ukraine’s medical services market in December.
Boris
(55A Velyka Vasylkivska St. (formerly Chervonoarmiyska));
(12A Bazhana St. (Osokorky metro station));
238-0000
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