Ludmyla Padalko

In 2005, she joined All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", and in 2006, she was the second elected deputy to the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council. She worked on the standing committee of the regional council on the issues of entrepreneurship, the processing industry, trade, and consumer services. In 2010, Lyudmila Ivanovna became a deputy to the regional council for the third time. In 2014, in the parliamentary elections, Lyudmila Padalko was on the № 158 election list of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland".

On August 21, 2001, Lyudmila Ivanovna was awarded the honorary title "Honoured Doctor of Ukraine," and on May 15, 2002, she received a Ph.D. in medical sciences in specialty obstetrics and gynecology.

As a leader, Pdalko carried out activities to improve the material and technical base. With her assistance, a hyperbaric oxygen department was opened in 1991, and the laundry was restored. An anaesthesiology and intensive care department were opened in 1993. In 1998, the centre for women with disabilities was opened. In 2000, the centre for pediatric and adolescent gynecology and the centre for juvenile obstetrics was opened. In 2005, the hospital was certified and received the highest category. In 2006, the breastfeeding support centre was opened. In 2015, an organisational and methodological department with a telemedicine cabinet was opened.

After moving to Dnipropetrovsk, Vadim began working at the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute as an assistant at the Department of Internal Diseases. In 1985, Lyudmila got a job as an obstetrician-gynecologist at Dnipropetrovsk Regional Oncologic Dispensary. On 10 April 1990, she became the Chief Physician of Dnipropetrovsk City Maternity Hospital No.2. On June 26, 2012, the hospital was reorganized into the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Perinatal Center, where she remains Chief Physician (as of 1 July 2019).

In 1989, at the maternity hospital, the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Perinatology of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy was opened on the initiative of professor Dubossarska Zinaida. Lyudmila continued setting up the department's work, opened with the support of the rector Novitska-Usenko Lyudmila, where employees conduct medical advisory work for women and newborns in the form of clinical rounds, consultations, surgeries, and consultations

In 1982, Lyudmila was first elected as a deputy in Synelnykove City Council. In 2002, she was elected a deputy in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council and was a candidate for people's deputies from the political party "Women for the Future".

In 1971, Lyudmila had a son, Gennady. In 1994, her husband, Vadim, died of a severe illness. A year later, her son graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute, following in his parent's footsteps. In 2000 he graduated from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, and in 2002 from Institute State Administration of the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, having obtained the qualification of a lawyer and a state manager.

In 1967, she entered Voroshilovgrad Medical Institute in the school of medicine. She kept correspondence and telephone conversations with Vadim. She came home each summer and spent time with her future husband, who studied at Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute. In 1970, they decided to marry, and a year later, Lyudmila transferred to Dnipropetrovsk. In 1971, her son, Gennady, was born. In 1972, Vadim graduated from the university and went to work in the direction of Sinelnik. In 1973, Lyudmila also graduated from the medical institute, receiving the specialty of "general medicine" and the qualification of obstetrician-gynecologist.

Ludmyla Padalko (Ukrainian: Падалко Людмила Іванівна; born 8 March 1949) is a Ukrainian doctor, obstetrician-gynecologist, and chief doctor at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Perinatal Centre (since 1990), Honoured Doctor of Ukraine (2001), and Candidate of Medicine (2002).

Lyudmila was born on 8 March 1949 in Tersyanka, Novomykolaivka Raion, Zaporizhia Oblast. Her father, Ivan Kyi, was a mathematics teacher at a local school. Her mother, Galina, was the head of a grocery store. In 1964–1965, Lyudmila moved to the district centre with her parents and sister, Nina. She met Vadim, her future husband, at the new school. Thanks to the attitudes and perseverance of her father as a teacher, Lyudmila graduated from Novonikolayevsk Secondary School with a gold medal in 1966. She loved biology and chemistry and dreamed of becoming a doctor. After graduation, she worked in the central regional library to prepare for the entrance exams to the university.