Over 11% of Ukrainians do not see doctors at all, almost 10% do so more than 10 times a year – study

More than 11% of Ukrainians do not see doctors at all, while 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 analytical center Experts Club in early February, 41.3% see doctors 1-2 times a year, 27.2% – 3-5 times, and 10.4% – 6-10 times.

“The group of people who do not see doctors at all needs a separate study of the reasons; these could be financial barriers and distrust, or psychological burnout”, – said Oleksandr Pozniy, director and co-founder of the research company Active Group.

He pointed out that most respondents see a doctor once or twice a year, but noted that there may be different reasons for this.

“The question should be asked as to why this is so: is it because our people are so healthy, or because a person cannot go to a doctor or does not trust the doctor. But that is already a question for the medical professionals”, – he said.

Pozniy also noted that, according to the survey results, “family doctors are available to most of the population, especially in cities”, while access to narrow-profile specialists, especially for the rural population and residents of small or remote communities, raises questions “primarily because of the lack of the necessary number of specialists”.

For his part, Hryhoriy Solonynka, a board member of the public organization “Kyiv Regional Organization “All-Ukrainian Medical Society” (VULT)” and professor at the Department of Internal and Occupational Diseases at the private higher education institution “Kyiv Medical University”, said that “we need to return to the issue of rural medicine and, probably, make some changes so that the rural population does not receive fewer services than the urban one”.

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

For his part, Experts Club founder Maksym Urakin noted that “medicine is part of a country's economic stability, and when treatment costs erode family budgets, it hits consumption, savings, and people's ability to work and recover”.

“In Ukraine, almost a quarter of the population spends up to 20% of the family budget on medicine, and every fifth person 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, a person spending more than 10% of their budget is catastrophic. That is, we see a sign of a serious financial burden”, – he said.

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