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Health Minister Memişoğlu says Türkiye's health system serves 3 million people a day
Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu met with students admitted this year with top rankings to the medical faculties of Hacettepe, Ankara and Gazi universities at the Bilkent Campus. Memişoğlu said the health system has approximately 1.5 million employees, has reached a capacity of 271,000 hospital beds and employs approximately 253,000 physicians.
Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu met with students admitted this year with top rankings to the medical faculties of Hacettepe, Ankara and Gazi universities at the Ministry of Health's Bilkent Campus.
At the meeting, Memişoğlu discussed healthcare services, the medical profession and the students' university experience. Saying that young people have an important place in Türkiye's future, Memişoğlu said choosing challenges was a sign of idealism.
Memişoğlu said medicine is a profession that requires empathy, selflessness and emotional commitment, and urged the students not to lose their idealism and to adopt an ideal of their own.
Memişoğlu also asked the young people not to neglect their families. He said they should not forget their duty of loyalty to their mothers and fathers and to those who raised them.
Memişoğlu shares data on the health system
Memişoğlu said Türkiye had made significant progress in healthcare over the past 20 years and that the health system currently serves 3 million people a day.
- There are approximately 1.5 million healthcare workers.
- Approximately 253,000 of these workers are physicians.
- The number of hospital beds is 271,000.
Memişoğlu said work was being carried out to provide healthcare services in the best possible way throughout Türkiye.
At the end of the program, Memişoğlu gave the students stethoscopes and wished them success.
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