Vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva and participant of the 4^th Baku International Humanitarian Forum, Director of the Support to Children in Russia Practical Surgery Medical Centre, Academician Andrey Pritiko visited the Thalassemia Centre.

Transplantation of a bone marrow  has been carried out in May this year, first time in Azerbaijan, on three patients, and the operations were successful. Now, operations on other four patients are planned there.

Leyla Aliyeva and Andrey Pritiko met with patients being treated at the Centre.

Andrey Pritiko highly appreciated the conditions created at the Centre and said this medical establishment was of significant importance.

Children being treated at the Centre were presented gifts from the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.