The group of people who do not visit doctors at all requires separate study of the reasons, which may include financial barriers, mistrust, and psychological burnout

More than 11% of Ukrainians do not visit doctors at all, and almost 10% do so more than 10 times a year. According to the results of a survey conducted by the research company Active Group and the Experts Club analytical center in early February, 41.3% visit doctors 1-2 times a year, 27.2% – 3-5 times, and 10.4% – 6-10 times.

“The group of people who do not visit doctors at all needs to be studied separately to determine the reasons, which may include financial barriers, mistrust, or psychological burnout,” said Alexander Pozniy, director and co-founder of the research company Active Group, who noted that most respondents visit a doctor once or twice a year, but noted that there may be various reasons for this.

“We need to ask ourselves why this is the case: is it because our people are so healthy, or because people cannot go to the doctor or do not trust doctors? But this is a question for the medical professionals themselves,” he said.

Pozniy also noted that according to the survey results, “family doctors are accessible to the majority of the population, especially in cities,” while access to specialists, especially for rural populations and populations in small or remote communities, raises questions “primarily due to the lack of the necessary number of specialists.”

For his part, Grigory Soloninka, a member of the board of the public organization “Kyiv Regional Organization of the All-Ukrainian Medical Society” (VULT) and professor of the Department of Internal and Occupational Diseases at the Kyiv Medical University, noted that “we need to return to the issue of rural medicine and, perhaps, make certain changes so that the rural population does not receive fewer services than others.” Grigory Soloninka noted that “we need to return to the issue of rural medicine and, perhaps, make certain changes so that the rural population does not receive fewer services than the urban population.”

“If we take a remote village, there is probably a problem with getting to a specialist and receiving specialized medical care,” he said.

For his part, Experts Club founder Maxim Urakin noted that “medicine is part of the country’s economic stability, and when medical expenses erode family budgets, it affects consumption, savings, and people’s ability to work and recover.”

“In Ukraine, almost a quarter of the population spends up to 20% of their family budget on medicine, and one in five spends more than 20%. If we translate this into the language of economic and financial analysis, then from the point of view of international methodology, the fact that a person spends more than 10% of their budget is catastrophic. In other words, we see signs of a serious financial burden,” he said.

The survey was conducted on the SunFlowerSociology online panel using a representative sample on February 11-12, 2026. The survey involved 1,000 respondents from a representative sample in all regions of Ukraine, except for the temporarily occupied territories.

Source: https://borgexpert.com/news/ponad-11-ukraintsiv-vzahali-ne-zvertaiutsia-do-likariv-majzhe-10-robliat-tse-bilshe-10-raziv-na-rik-doslidzhennia

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