Borja Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 62.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #4 of 20 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-site plastic-surgery clinic in Kennedy Norte, Guayaquil. The responsible surgeon is named with role and is tied to this address. A matching postgraduate specialist title was found in the national higher-education register, and the surgeon's personal tax registration is open at this address in the tax authority's register.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: secpre_guayas, 18 September 2026 — found in both chapter and international rolls: SECPRE Capítulo Guayas lists 'BORJA ZAVALA JOSE FRANCISCO' and the ISAPS Ecuador list carries the card 'Dr. Francisco Borja Zavala', status Active, practice 'Borja Clinic', mapped to Kennedy Norte, Guayaquil. Association provenance, carried as facts. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: secpre_guayas, 18 September 2026 — no registration number published on the clinic's own pages, and no society route carries one for this physician (the SECPRE Guayas roll publishes names only; the SECPRE Pichincha directory has no entry for them; ISAPS publishes no numbers). |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: clinic_published_permit, 18 September 2026 — no operating-permit number is published on the clinic's own pages, and the SRI establishment endpoint cannot be entered without a RUC — the clinic publishes none — and would in any case prove only a registered tax establishment, never a health permit. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. A complete scan of the clinic's own pages found no legal entity and no registration number — the hospital trades under the name Borja Clinic, a trading name without a company form, and no RUC is published anywhere on the site. Pages loaded 2026-09-18: https://www.clinicaborja.com/, https://www.clinicaborja.com/longevity. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. The site displays association logos (ASPS, ISAPS, AEXPI, SECPRE) without registration numbers or issuers. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft, unevidenced superlative in the clinic's own copy; the rest of the text is descriptive, and the longevity pages explicitly decline to promise outcomes. Pages loaded 2026-09-18: https://www.clinicaborja.com/, https://www.clinicaborja.com/longevity. [site] Más de tres décadas acompañando a las familias guayaquileñas cuando la salud exige lo mejor. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. A pre/post-surgical patient guide and a WHO smoking-risk notice are published; no informed-consent form, revision policy or complaint route was found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Francisco Borja Zavala [site] [senescyt] | Plastic surgeon, medical director | 1006R-07-4172 (SENESCYT posgrado, Cirugía Plástica y Reconstructiva) |
| Dra. Beatriz Ponce de Borja [site] | Laser treatments | not published |
Legal entity: BORJA ZAVALA JOSE FRANCISCO · 0906348594001 [sri] [sri-est]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECSENESCYT/MINEDEC register (Consulta de Títulos Registrados), record opened via the register's session-bound image captcha per the country m1Rule: título de posgrado 'ESPECIALISTA EN CIRUGIA PLASTICA Y RECONSTRUCTIVA', Universidad de Guayaquil, número de registro 1006R-07-4172, fecha de registro 2007-12-07, identificación 0906348594, matching the surgeon named on the clinic site.[senescyt]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECThe surgeon is listed by both societies: SECPRE Capítulo Guayas publishes 'BORJA ZAVALA JOSE FRANCISCO' on its member roll, and the ISAPS Ecuador member list carries 'Dr. Francisco Borja Zavala', status Active, practice 'Borja Clinic', mapped to Kennedy Norte, Guayaquil.[secpre] [isaps]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Register closed to machine queries
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.clinicaborja.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +593 4 2680508 |
| Address | Edificio Borja Clinic, Cdla. Kennedy Norte, Mz 110 solar 8-9-10, Av. José Santiago Castillo, Guayaquil |
| City | Guayaquil |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.clinicaborja.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu, documents, advertising text | 18 September 2026 |
| senescyt | https://titulos-edusuperior.minedec.gob.ec/consulta-titulos-web/fac… | official register | specialist degree record for BORJA ZAVALA JOSE FRANCISCO (identificación 0906348594), retrieved by reading the register's session-bound image captcha, per country registry-map m1Rule | 30 August 2026 |
| sri | https://srienlinea.sri.gob.ec/sri-catastro-sujeto-servicio-internet… | official register | legal entity / taxpayer status | 30 August 2026 |
| sri-est | https://srienlinea.sri.gob.ec/sri-catastro-sujeto-servicio-internet… | official register | registered establishment address and status | 30 August 2026 |
| secpre | https://secpreguayas.com/Miembros/miembros.html | secondary | SECPRE Capítulo Guayas member roll (78 names, surname-first) | 18 September 2026 |
| isaps | https://www.isaps.org/discover/find-a-surgeon/?locations=4447 | secondary | ISAPS find-a-surgeon, Ecuador member list (server-rendered, node 4447) — member name, practice and practice address | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 4 (Re-run: the clinic's live pages re-loaded and re-scanned for the advertising lexicon (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Re-scored on the v1.2 M5 ladder (pass 1): the ladder measures what the clinic itself publishes, and this clinic names no legal entity — an entity located through a register or a directory does not raise M5) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-typed from retry to registry_closed (v1.2 pass 1): the ACESS facility register is captcha-gated behind a geo-block and the secondary routes were run) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-typed from retry to registry_closed (v1.2 pass 1): the ACESS licence register is captcha-gated behind a geo-block and the secondary routes were run) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → null (Secondary routes for the closed specialist register re-run (v1.2 pass 1): ISAPS Ecuador, SECPRE Guayas, SECPRE Pichincha) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.clinicaborja.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 5 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.