Okhmatdyt National Specialized Children’s Hospital is the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine and the country’s leading national center for highly specialized pediatric medical care.
For more than 130 years, we have been providing advanced medical care to children with the most complex conditions, combining extensive clinical expertise, state-of-the-art technology, and a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified specialists. Every day, families from across Ukraine turn to Okhmatdyt for treatment and surgical procedures that are often unavailable at other medical institutions in the country.
Since the start of the full-scale war, the hospital has also been providing medical care to adult patients while remaining committed to its core mission — saving lives.
Okhmatdyt in Numbers
Our Mission
We work to ensure that every child—regardless of the complexity of their diagnosis or where they live—has access to timely, high-quality, and advanced medical care.
Our team continuously implements the latest treatment methods, advances medical research, and educates the next generation of healthcare professionals, helping shape the future of pediatric medicine in Ukraine.
Why “Okhmatdyt”?
Okhmatdyt National Specialized Children’s Hospital is where advanced medical technology, a multidisciplinary approach, and decades of experience come together to provide treatment for the most complex clinical cases.
This is where we:
- perform bone marrow, liver, and kidney transplants for children;
- carry out highly specialized neurosurgical, reconstructive, and minimally invasive procedures;treat pediatric hematologic cancers, rare diseases, and genetic disorders;
- provide intensive care for premature infants with critically low birth weight;
- apply advanced medical genetics, newborn screening, and gene therapy;
- operate Ukraine’s only specialized national centers in several fields of pediatric medicine.
The hospital is equipped with advanced neuronavigation systems, portable computed tomography (CT), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), minimally invasive endoscopic surgery, innovative radiation therapy technologies, and high-precision laboratory diagnostics.
The Hospital Opens
With the support of philanthropist Mykola Tereshchenko, a free hospital for low-income patients was established in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian Specialized Children’s Hospital “Okhmatdyt” was established, bringing together leading specialists and the country’s most advanced fields of pediatric medicine.
The hospital was granted National status by a Presidential Decree of Ukraine.
Caring for Children from Across Ukraine
Every year, thousands of families from every region of Ukraine come to Okhmatdyt seeking specialized medical care.
The hospital provides highly specialized consultative, diagnostic, surgical, and rehabilitation services for children with the most complex medical conditions. Through a multidisciplinary approach, each patient is cared for by a team of specialists from different medical disciplines, enabling the most effective treatment decisions—even in the most challenging clinical cases.
Okhmatdyt Today
Despite the challenges of war, Okhmatdyt continues to provide outstanding medical care, expand its treatment capabilities, and introduce advanced medical technologies.
This is where new departments are established, groundbreaking surgical procedures are performed, and programs in transplantation, gene therapy, newborn screening, and the treatment of rare diseases continue to advance.
Every day, the Okhmatdyt team does everything possible to give every child the opportunity for a healthier future.