"Dr. Yuri Bezdverny served a long term as an assessing Immigration physician for Canada and US Immigration and Citizenship providing professional and caring services to the adoptive community. Now Dr. Bezdverny is offering services directly to the parents. His wide knowledge of the potential medical conditions and developmental standards that he has witnessed by his extensive exposure with institutionalized children in Ukraine, has clearly made him an asset to the adoptive community."

Sonia Kondrat Licensed Canadian Agency facilitating adoption from Ukraine,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

It is well known that main inhabitants of orphanages are children who were abandoned by parents suffering from alcohol or drug abuse, psychological disorders or unsociable behavior. Sometimes, the environment in the orphanages does not support recovery of the orphans from minimal disorders and does not promote healthy growth.

Regulations of many countries (Western Europe) do not require medical examination of children to be adopted. However, US regulations require medical examination of children to be adopted after the process of adoption has already been completed.

That is why a pre-adoption medical examination of orphans to be adopted is very important. This may help prospective parents to avoid adoptions of children with significant psychological and physical defects and to estimate prognosis for orphans with different levels of developmental delay.