Health Minister Memişoğlu: Turkey exports ventilators to 45 countries

Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu said Turkey has made the health industry one of its leading sectors and now exports domestically made ventilators to 45 countries and automatic shock devices to 16. He spoke in Istanbul at the 12th Turkish Medical World Congress and the TÜSEB Aziz Sancar Science, Service and Encouragement Awards ceremony, held at the Rixos Tersane Istanbul with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Memişoğlu said Turkey has more than 1,500 hospitals and 1.5 million health workers and ranks among the top tier of the global health sector. He noted that 28 city hospitals have been delivered to the country, while construction of 11 more continues and project work on another 11 is ongoing. He added that domestic X-ray devices and intensive care monitors are being widely deployed, and that ultrasound devices with every part made domestically will be produced within two years.

The minister said the ministry is fighting obesity, physical inactivity and tobacco use. He invited anyone with a health idea to join at uretensaglik.gov.tr and said, “We are not a disease ministry, we are the Ministry of Health.”