Chachava Clinic

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Chachava Clinic — Tbilisi. Specialties: IVF, ICSI, Surrogacy, Egg donation, Obstetrics. Independent ratings and reputation have not yet been verified by us; see Sources.

Field visit note (2026-07)

An editorial team member visited the clinic in July 2026 (single-visit sample):

• Strictest eligibility paperwork among the clinics we track — field-verified by Repro Society (July 2026): married couples only; the marriage certificate must be within one year of validity; a medical letter attesting to the inability to conceive naturally is required from both partners. Unfriendly to unmarried partners and single clients. Note: none of this is published on the clinic's website, and no Georgian legal source imposes a validity window on the certificate itself — these are the clinic's own requirements, stricter than the law, disclosed only on site. Still ask for the document list in writing before signing.
• Facilities are luxurious — top tier in Tbilisi.
• Pricing differs markedly from same-city peers (e.g. GGRC); request an itemised written quote before signing.
• Editorial view: strict screening cuts both ways — it signals clear legal compliance (lower back-end risk at birth registration), but the entry bar is high and inflexible. Clients who do not meet the married + medical-indication criteria should rule this clinic out early rather than trust agency claims that it "can be arranged".

Multi-platform reputation scan (2026-07)

Key findings from our July 2026 cross-platform check (see the Chinese page for full citations):

• Accreditation verified: the clinic's long-unspecified "international accreditation" claim corresponds to a German KTQ hospital-quality certificate, listed in the official KTQ register as valid until 2027-09-29. KTQ covers hospital management quality, not IVF-lab-specific accreditation.
• Name origin: the clinic is named after Soviet-Georgian academician K.V. Chachava (1919–1979), a pioneer of perinatal medicine who directed the state research institute from 1965, per Russian Wikipedia — not a family founding dynasty from 1875, as some agency marketing implies.
• Corporate facts: operating entity is JSC Chachava Clinic (registered 2001-07-02 per BIA.ge); 201–500 employees and acting general director Marine Gelantia per its 2024 UN WEPs signature page.
• English platforms: PlacidWay shows 5.0/5 (22 reviews, 2021–2024, all positive, channel-partner page); WhatClinic ServiceScore 7.3/10. One notable mixed review on ovu.com: a 7-year patient with successful outcomes praised the clinic itself but described the international coordination as "zero professionalism", naming coordinator Tatiana Panteleeva — in sharp contrast with named praise for coordinator Gvantsa elsewhere.
• Russian platforms: Yandex Maps 4.3/5 (22 ratings, 6 reviews); complaints focus on 2–2.5h outpatient waits and no online booking (Sept 2024); a 2020 3-star birth review on Otzovikon praised medical staff but criticized housekeeping and one pediatrician's rudeness about speaking Russian.
• Chinese platforms: no first-person patient accounts found on Xiaohongshu/Zhihu; coverage is agency marketing centered on the "oldest maternity hospital since 1875" narrative.

Medical team verification (2026-07)

The fertility team is fully anonymous on the official site (the Our Team page lists no doctor names) — a notable transparency gap. Reconstructed from independent sources: clinical director Keti Gotsiridze is among the best-verified fertility physicians in Georgia (first author, ESHRE 2024 abstract P-009 in Human Reproduction, Chachava affiliation; ORCID on file; repeatedly named in patient praise as "Dr. Keti"). Co-authors Nana Menabde (embryologist), Tata Jokhadze (OB-GYN) and M. Makhniashvili confirm real academic output from the team. Zurab Darachvelidze appears in named patient praise (credentials directory-only). Caveats: Oliko Murghulia left for GGRC in 2017 yet still appears in stale directories; a Turkish doctor (Hakan Kozinoglu) appears to be a directory mis-listing; SILK Medical's embryologist Salome Mosidze states she has doubled as an assistant embryologist at Chachava since 2021.

New user signals (2026-07-07 re-check): a Reddit r/IVF user with first-hand experience praised the integrated care (~$50k over two years); r/Sakartvelo locals call it the go-to choice "if you have money or insurance"; a FertilityFriends user reported Chachava was the only one of three clinics to answer email inquiries promptly (paywalled thread, pending verification). Google review mirrors carry detailed complaints naming coordinator Tatiana Panteleeva (paperwork chaos, a 7-year client asked to draft her own contract and to promote the clinic in the US) — the same coordinator also receives named praise; both recorded, mirror page pending verification.