{"id":178078,"date":"2026-01-23T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tdmu.edu.ua\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/student-tnmu-vitalij-gakalo-stav-laureatom-konkursu-lyudyna-roku-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:59:36","slug":"student-tnmu-vitalij-gakalo-stav-laureatom-konkursu-lyudyna-roku-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tdmu.edu.ua\/en\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/student-tnmu-vitalij-gakalo-stav-laureatom-konkursu-lyudyna-roku-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TNMU Student Vitalii Hakalo Becomes a Laureate of the \u201cPerson of the Year 2025\u201d Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The jury of the well-known regional competition \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d<\/strong> in the Ternopil region announced the winners for 2025. The honorary title was awarded to Vitalii Hakalo<\/strong>, a student of Ternopil National Medical University<\/strong>. The competition was established in 2001 by the sports, arts, and spiritual center \u201cMy Ukraine\u201d<\/em> and the editorial board of the socio-political newspaper \u201cVilne Zhyttia\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From 2016 to 2020, Vitalii Hakalo studied at the Kremenets Medical College<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2020, he has worked as an emergency medical paramedic<\/strong> at the Municipal Non-Profit Enterprise \u201cCenter for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine\u201d<\/em> at Ternopil Substation No. 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2022, he accompanied emergency medical teams to Azovstal<\/strong> to evacuate the wounded; however, the operation was disrupted by the Russian side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, he enrolled in the second year of study<\/strong> at Ternopil National Medical University, majoring in Medicine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 26, 2022, he went to the war zone in the Donetsk region<\/strong>, where he took part in combat operations in Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut, Soledar<\/strong>, and in the Lyman direction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, the main focus of military operations was the Lyman direction<\/strong>.
In 2024, he participated in the battles for Pokrovsk and its surroundings<\/strong>.
In 2025, he was involved in combat operations in the Pokrovsk and Kursk directions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His medical service began with work in a resuscitation team<\/strong>, whose main task was transporting severely wounded patients from the stabilization point in Bakhmut<\/strong> to the hospital in Druzhkivka<\/strong>. Later, he worked at a stabilization point in Lyman<\/strong> and subsequently participated in\u00a0medical\u00a0and case evacuations<\/strong>. He gained extensive experience in performing surgical and anesthesiological procedures<\/strong>, including independently carrying out limb amputations<\/strong>, metal osteosynthesis<\/strong>, and applying external fixation devices<\/strong> for limb fractures. He also participated in the treatment of severe thoracoabdominal injuries<\/strong> and open traumatic brain injuries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2025, he signed a contract and joined the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University is proud of its student, who demonstrates a high level of patriotism and conscientiously fulfills his civic duty to defend Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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