The Turkish government provides free universal health care, and made early investments in its health care infrastructure that are paying off now. Our efforts and strategy have been central in turning the tide. The number of new cases of coronavirus has decreased significantly in recent few weeks to its slowest pace since the first case […]
Tributes have been paid to a late surgeon who performed Turkey’s first ever heart transplant operation more than 50 years ago. Dr Kemal Bayazıt passed away on Wednesday, 26 June, aged 89 due to multiple organ failure, an announcement by a doctor at the Istanbul hospital where he was being treated said. Sharing the sad […]
Surgeons at a university hospital in Turkey may have set a new world record after performing five simultaneous liver transplants involving live donors, media there have reported. The surgery took place at the İnönü University’s Turgut Özal Medical Centre in the eastern province of Malatya between 8am and 8pm on Wednesday, 12 June, according to […]
