Velaya Aesthetic Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.6/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic, reconstructive and hand-surgery practice in Ixelles. Responsible surgeon named on the clinic's own site; specialist certification matched in the federal specialist-board register.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: BRU.
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 Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. HealthPro (FPS Public Health): Velez Pombo Rafael, specialities MBS45 (plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery), qualification code 210, status active, practice address matches ("Louise Medical Center", Avenue Louise 284, 1050 Ixelles). [healthpro] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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 Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name in HealthPro (nihdi 18951226). [healthpro] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — by its own definition this register does not cover this class of facility or this territory, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for this record. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register does not cover this class of facility or this territory. Last attempt: none_found, 22 September 2026 — § A: the register of this class does not cover this unit by its own definition (scopeGap in the map); previous state null retry. Avenue Louise 284, 1050 Ixelles. Legs run: CBENumber=0804498303; Name=Velaya → recordsTotal 0 in the Flemish register. Federal cells untouched (M1 = 5, M3 = 4, M5 = 4). |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. Matched by name in KBO/BCE ("VELAYA", enterprise 0804.498.303); the register's registered-seat address (Bosvoordse Steenweg 40, 1050 Elsene) differs from the consultation address (Avenue Louise 284), a normal registered-office/practice-address split. [kbo] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No identifiers (registration or licence numbers) published on the site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the clinic's own English page ("outstanding results"). [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, fr) on 2026-09-17: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents None. None of the five document classes found on the pages checked. [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 Rafael Vélez Pombo [site] [healthpro] | Plastic, reconstructive and hand surgeon | 18951226 |
Legal entity: VELAYA · 0804.498.303 [kbo]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Register does not cover this class of facility or this territory
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.drvelezpombo.com/en/brussels-plastic-surgery/ |
|---|---|
| Address | Avenue Louise 284, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium |
| City | Brussels |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.drvelezpombo.com/en/brussels-plastic-surgery/ | clinic's own site | physician, menu, advertising text | 31 August 2026 |
| rosa | https://rosa.be/en/hp/rafael-velez-pombo/ | secondary | clinic name Louise Medical Center, address | 31 August 2026 |
| healthpro | https://apps.health.belgium.be/healthpro-search-engine/api/professi… | official register | Specialist certification (M1) and medical licence (M3) — HealthPro (FPS Public Health) API, unauthenticated GET, name=Velez Pombo; matching record professionalId=d4c099c8-2d52-48f0-9b49-08dac96e465c, human deep link https://apps.health.belgium.be/healthpro/professional/d4c099c8-2d52-48f0-9b49-08dac96e465c | 31 August 2026 |
| kbo | https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?lang=… | official register | Legal entity (M5): VELAYA, enterprise number 0804.498.303, active. | 31 August 2026 |
| cobrha | https://publiek.departementzorg.be/cobrha/Institutions/List?cbe=080… | official register | Facility register (M4) — POST https://publiek.departementzorg.be/cobrha/internal/Institutions (DataTables body, CBENumber=0804498303) returned recordsTotal 0: not a recognised facility (expected — Belgium does not license private aesthetic clinics; not a penalty). | 31 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.drvelezpombo.com/en/brussels-plastic-surgery/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://www.drvelezpombo.com/en/brussels-plastic-surgery/ | fr: https://www.drvelezpombo.com/fr/chirurgie-plastique-bruxelles/ | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § A registry_scope_gap) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the CoBRHA Viewer; the registers covering this region were unreachable from this network (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 31 August 2026 | M4 3 -> null: measurement aligned with register map (CoBRHA absence is the legal norm for private clinics; Brussels outside CoBRHA scope). Kernel 1.8 fix. |
| 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.