Curalb is a care-coordination service for international patients. Here is what that means in practice.
What Curalb does
Curalb is a care-coordination service for international patients travelling to Albania for treatment. We are not a clinic, a hospital group, or a travel agency — we verify providers, coordinate the patient journey, and stay involved after treatment ends.
Why we exist
Most of this category is built on lead generation: a directory paid for introductions, with no reason to follow up once a patient has been passed to a clinic. That structure rewards volume of enquiries over quality of outcome. We are paid only when treatment is completed, which is a deliberate choice to align what we earn with what happens to the patient.
What we won't do
We won't accept payment for placement — there is no mechanism on this site for a clinic to appear higher because it paid to. We won't publish a statistic, a review score or a testimonial we can't evidence. And we will tell a patient not to travel when that's the honest answer, even though it costs us the case.
Where we're EU-adjacent
Curalb operates from the EU/UK side of the corridor; treatment itself is delivered in Albania by independently licensed clinics and clinicians. Patient data handling and cross-border transfer are governed by our privacy notice, published once finalised with data protection counsel.