Ukraine has favorable conditions and rich resources for medical treatment and health recovery. The total area of health-recovery and recreational territories is 13% of Ukraine’s land. By level of supply with natural medical resources, Ukraine occupies one of the top places in Europe.

Among valuable plants of Ukraine, 250 kinds are acknowledged as medical, out of which 150 are used in scientific medicine. Mineral and thermal waters sources, medical muds, the fresh breeze of Black Sea in the South of Ukraine or ionized forest air of Carpathian mountains create good opportunities for people who want to improve the state of health or to have a healthy active rest.  

Mineral waters of practically all types are widespread in Ukraine: carbonic (Polyana, Holubinskoe, Soymenskoe deposits), radon (Khmelnytskiy, Znamyanka), sulfide (Syniakske, Velykolyubynske, Chokranske, Evpatoriya), ferrous (Slovyanogorskoe, Andreevskoe), iodine-bromine (Berdyansk), bromine (Zhuravitskoe, Saki, Lazurnoe), siliceous (Berezovskoe, Rai-Olenevskoe, Mukachev), waters with increased maintenance of organic matters (Truskavets, Novo-Zbruchanskoe), and waters without specific components and properties (Myrgorod, Evpatoriya, Odesa, Kuyalnyk, Morshyn, and Feodosiya). Mineral waters are widely used for the treatment and health of the population. There are about 400 springs of mineral waters in Ukraine.

The natural conditions of Ukraine are conducive to the formation of various types of medical muds - over 100 deposits of such muds are known. For resort treatment silt muds from salt reservoirs (sulfide) are mainly used. Deposits are most widespread in the region of the Azov-Black Sea coast (Saki, Chokratskoe, Kuyalnyk, Solyane, and Ripne). They are used at the resorts of Berdyansk, Saki, Evpatoriya, Kuyalnyk, Kirilovka, and Gopry.

There is famous Filatov Institute and Clinic of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy in Odessa, Ukraine. The Institute with clinic were founded in Odessa in 1936 by the prominent scientist-ophthalmologist, academician Vladimir Filatov. This clinic is known in the world as one of the leading ophthalmologic centers of Europe and is the main one in Ukraine on the problem of ophthalmology and tissue therapy. And the prices there, in comparison with Europe are much less. Over 700 staff members including 26 doctors of medical science and 55 candidates of medical science work there.