The hospital was visited by the world-famous Turkish plastic surgeon Hakan Agir, professor of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, head of the Department of Aesthetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Acibadem Clinic (Turkey). The doctor operates on complex congenital defects of the face and body, post-burn scars and post-traumatic consequences.

At OKHMATDYT, the specialist, together with a team of maxillofacial surgeons, performed surgery on two children. The first child is 5-month-old Tymofiy from Kharkiv with an atypical bilateral cleft lip, who underwent cheiloplasty. The second child is 7-year-old Nazar from Ivano-Frankivsk region with an arteriovenous malformation of the right side of his face. He underwent sclerosis of the venous component together with our vascular surgeon.

“The surgeries were successful. Now the children will be under medical supervision.

Cooperation with the world’s leading experts, such as Hakan Agir, is extremely important for our Center. This exchange of experience and knowledge not only raises the professional level of doctors, but also improves the quality of medical care for our patients. Your help is invaluable, Mr. Hakan!” said Roman Kizyma, Head of the Children’s Medicine Center.

“It’s a great pleasure for us to work side by side with world-class surgeons, to gain new skills and experience. Dr. Hakan also examined the children with cleft lips we had operated on the day before and praised our results.

We are sincerely grateful to our colleagues Orest Leshnevsky and Andriy Kuzyk for personally introducing us to Dr. Hakan and thus expanding the possibilities of cooperation between our Center for Pediatric Medicine.

Since today it is the only Center in the Western region that professionally treats cleft lip and palate in two institutions, the opportunity to learn and share experience is very important for us,” emphasized the Center’s maxillofacial surgeons Roman Ogonovskyi and Khrystyna Pohranichna.

To recap, the Turkish doctor first started coming to Ukraine before the full-scale invasion. Since 2022, he has been visiting Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Lviv on a regular basis. Mr. Hakan has a long history of cooperation with the Center for Pediatric Medicine.

The specialist undertakes the most complicated surgeries and monitors the patients’ condition after the interventions with the help of OKHMATDYT surgeons.