Background: The Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Treatment was established as a part of the newly created 2nd Department of Surgery of Charles University, Medical Faculty and the University Hospital in Hradec Králové in 1985. Through modest beginnings, activities of the Department expanded up to full coverage of specialized care in plastic surgery within the region with almost one million inhabitants.

Aim: In this article, the most important events of several historical phases related to almost four decades are described. The aspects of medical personnel, technological and space equipment are especially emphasized. The Department has always been working on the principles of interdisciplinary co-operation within the department itself and other departments within the hospital as well. Over the past 35 years, the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Treatment has been firmly entrenched in the spectrum of specialized activities of the University Hospital in Hradec Králové.

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