Liudmyla Sheremet
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Activist
Liudmyla Sheremet | |
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Людмила Шеремет | |
| Born | 21 November 1942 Makiivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 22 February 2014 (aged 71) |
| Occupations | Anestheisologist Activist |
| Years active | 1959–2009 |
| Awards |  Hero of Ukraine |
Liudmyla Oleksandrivna Sheremet (Ukrainian: Людмила Олександрівна Шеремет; 21 November 1942 – 22 February 2014) was a Ukrainian anesthesiologist and activist. She began her career as a nurse at a hospital in Makiivka and then worked as an anesthesiologist at Krasnodon District Hospital. Sheremet was employed as an anesthesiologist at Khmelnytsky City Hospital and ended her professional career working at Khmelnytsky City Perinatal Center as an obstetrician-gynecologist. She died three days after being shot in the head at a protest held at a Security Service of Ukraine building during the Revolution of Dignity in February 2014. Sheremet was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of Gold Star by president Petro Poroshenko in November 2014.
On 21 November 1942, Sheremet was born in the city of Makiivka in the Donetsk Oblast which was under German occupation at the time.[1][2] Her father was a power sub-station controller and her mother stayed at home to raise Sheremet and her three elder siblings.[2] Upon the death of Sheremet's father when she was in the ninth grade,[2] she made a decision to become a doctor. Her first attempt to enter the medical profession at the local medical institute was unsuccessful, so she worked as a nurse at a hospital in Makiivka and then as an anaesthesiologist at Krasnodon District Hospital from 1959 to 1962 after receiving her surgical degree.[3][4]
She relocated to the city of Khmelnytski in 1969 and acquired employment as an anaesthesiologist at Khmelnytsky City Hospital where she remained until 1977.[1] Sheremet left the hospital due to the poor interior working conditions and enrolled on courses in gynaecology and obstetrics.[2] Between 1977 and 2009, she worked at Khmelnytsky City Perinatal Center as an obstetrician-gynaecologist.[4] Sheremet partook in a protest during the Orange Revolution in Kyiv in 2004. She retired from professional work in 2009.[2]
Personal life
She was married to a former student of Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute and the couple had one child.[2]