r more than four decades, the medical life of Galati city benefited from the multitudinous contributions to public health brought by the reputed pneumologist Ludmila Galin. Born in Bassarabia, where she attended her gymnasium years of study, in the autumn of 1940, she is obliged to take refuge in Galati, together with her family, when this territory had been annexed to the Soviet Union by the infame Ribbentrop-Molotov Dictate.