I am glad to have become a doctor
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Liudmyla Sevastyanova is a physician from Kramatorsk, serving as the chief doctor of the municipal psychiatric hospital. She was born in 1955 in Chernivtsi to a family of a metallurgist and a doctor from Donetsk region. Her parents were transferred to Kramatorsk when she was two and a half years old. In 1972, she entered Donetsk State Medical Institute. Since 1979, she worked as a district general practitioner. She witnessed two floods in the Old City — as a child in 1964, and again in 1985 while already working at a polyclinic. She participated in local elections in 1998 and 2002, becoming a city council deputy. Since 2000, she has been heading the Kramatorsk Municipal Psychiatric Hospital, which has been shelled by the Russians three times since the full-scale invasion began. On April 8, 2022, she was evacuating her hospital’s patients to Dnipro when the Russians struck the Kramatorsk railway station. In October 2022, the psychiatric hospital resumed emergency inpatient treatment in a different building after the main building was destroyed in a targeted strike on September 7, 2022. Currently, in 2024, Lyudmyla is still working in Kramatorsk.