Juri Gaidajew

Biography of Anatolij Gaidaj:

Date of Birth: 14.08.1954

Place of Birth. Education. Anatolij Gaidaj was born in Donetsk. After graduating from medical school, he worked for four years as a resident physician, emergency urologist in the 5th urological department of the Zaporizhzhia City Clinical Hospital for Emergency Medicine. He then completed a two-year clinical residency program at the Kiev Research Institute of Urology and Nephrology (specializing in Urology) from 1982 to 1984.

Career. After finishing the residency, Gaidaj worked in the department of plastic and reconstructive urology at the Kiev Research Institute of Urology and Nephrology in the positions of acting junior research scientist, junior research scientist, and senior research scientist. From January 1992 to September 1997, he headed the urology department and served as the deputy head of the medical sector at the Kiev Oblast Clinical Hospital.

Subsequently, Gaidaj worked for several months as a senior research scientist in the department for the development, scientific support, and monitoring of the implementation of national and regional programs for healthcare reform at the Ukrainian Institute for Public Health. For another year (until January 1999), he was the deputy head of the medical sector of the Kiev City Hospital for veterans of the Great Patriotic War. From January 1999 to December 2000, Gaidajew was the director of the Kiev City Hospital No. 14. In the following five years, he headed the Kiev City Hospital for Emergency Medicine.

In December 2005, Gaidajew was appointed Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine. On March 23, 2007, he took over the position of Minister, replacing Jurij Poljatschenko, who was appointed to the government of Viktor Yanukovych in August 2006 according to the quota of the parliamentary faction 'Our Ukraine.' Shortly before Gaidajew's appointment, this quota was transferred to the Communist Party of Ukraine in accordance with the agreement of the leaders of the Anti-Crisis Coalition.

In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 5th place on the KPU list.

In the autumn of 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the Verkhovna Rada of the VII legislative period from the KPU (for the single-member constituency No. 13 in the Vinnytsia region), losing to the 'Batkivshchyna' candidate Mykola Katerynchuk.

Views and Intentions. During the presentation of the ministry team, the new government member promised that there would be no shocking changes in the way the healthcare system operates. Gaidaj emphasized: 'There will be no revolutionary steps in our cooperation. There will be normal cooperation, an evolutionary development of our medicine.' According to Gaidaj, priority is given to primary medical and social care, emergency medicine, protection of mothers and children, combating AIDS, oncological, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases.

Gaidaj holds the honorary title 'Honored Doctor of Ukraine.'

Family. Married. Has four children.

12.08.2022