Medical certificate (zaświadczenie lekarskie) translation
Sworn translation of a short medical certificate for work, driving licence, visa or an office. Not a hospital discharge and not a vaccination booklet — those have their own pages.
A medical certificate confirms health status, fitness for work or lack of contraindications. Volume depends on the form — from a short stamp to a full write-up. Hospital discharges — `/tlumaczenie-wypisu-ze-szpitala`.
Sworn medical certificate translation — a short fitness blank
What the certificate translation includes
Patient name, doctor, diagnosis/opinion, dates, stamps.Latin diagnoses and ICD codes are kept as on the form. We do not rewrite the opinion into a “nicer” wording.
Do not confuse with a discharge
Certificate — short blank; wypis — treatment history.If you have a multi-page epicrisis with prescriptions — that is the discharge page, not this one.
For work and driving
Common case — fitness / brak przeciwwskazań.Employers and WORD sometimes accept a certified format; for an urząd almost always sworn.
Visa and residence
A consulate or UW may ask for zaświadczenie.Send the requirements list — we will say whether the original needs an apostille before translation.
Certificate validity
Translation does not extend the blank’s freshness.Many offices want a certificate not older than 1–3 months. Check the date before ordering.
Handwriting and clinic forms
Translators with medical training can read the handwriting.We work with doctors’ handwriting and clinic forms — we decipher difficult handwritten notes. Send the scan and we start.
Languages for medical certificate translation
We work both ways: a foreign document into Polish for offices in Poland, a Polish document into the destination-country language.
Documents from Ukraine for offices in Poland — the most common pair.
Soviet-era documents and those issued in Russia and Belarus.
Documents from the UK, Ireland, the USA, India and the UAE.
Polish documents for Ukrainian offices — certificates, extracts, rulings.
For foreign employers, universities and consulates.
For offices and banks in countries that require Russian.
Three types of translation — and when you need each
If the document goes to a public office — you need a sworn translation. Prices below are for Ukrainian, Russian and English; other languages are quoted separately.
When zaświadczenie lekarskie is translated
A short medical blank for fitness, visa or an office.
Fitness for a role or changed work conditions.
Pracodawca, medycyna pracyCertificate for a category or licence reinstatement.
WORDWhen a consulate or UW asks for a medical blank.
Konsulat, UWClearance for a child or adult activity.
Szkoła, organizatorApostille on a medical certificate
For domestic work in Poland an apostille is rarely needed. For consulates and some foreign procedures — yes; the stamp can be translated separately afterwards.
Who already ordered
All reviewsI sent a photo in the evening, had a PDF by morning, and the paper copy in Wrocław two days later. Urząd Wojewódzki accepted it without questions.
They asked to match the name spelling to the passport — I would not have thought of it. That is why the pack was accepted first time.
The amount quoted on Telegram did not change. Good when there are no “extra pages” at the end.
FAQ
These are the questions we hear most about this document.
No. Long wypis / epicrisis — `/tlumaczenie-wypisu-ze-szpitala`. This page is for short certificates.