President Erdoğan: We will recruit 38 thousand non-physician personnel before the end of 2026

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a statement at the "Istanbul University Hospital Çapa Campus Mass Groundbreaking and Mass Opening Ceremony".

Highlights from Erdoğan's statements are as follows:

"We are representatives of a deep-rooted history in healthcare. Medicine has never been seen as an ordinary profession in our history. We have shown ourselves in this field since the 13th century. Istanbul Faculty of Medicine is also the trust of our ancestors. It is one of the institutions entrusted to us by the Ottoman Empire. I believe that our Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, with its 2 centuries-old history full of success, will provide healing to our nation for many more centuries. Continuity is essential in our state tradition. Institutions are the institutions of the nation as well as the state.

Çapa Internal Medicine Hospital was built on an area of 44 thousand square meters. There are 186 beds in our hospital, 39 of which are intensive care units. In addition, 56 polyclinics have a daily treatment capacity for 31 people. The hospital is equipped with earthquake isolators. The 26-bed coronary intensive care unit becomes operational.

I wish good luck to both of our hospitals, which will strengthen the power of our faculty and provide healing to patients. Today we are laying the foundations of two of our works.

We did not come to this point in health easily. We had bad days when patients were taken hostage in hospitals. We have had periods when people who did not have money could not receive health care, prescribed medications were not accessible, and civil servants and workers went to separate hospitals. We have come from times when people who did not pay for a knife could not undergo surgery. With the steps we took, we reversed the health situation in 24 years.

Previously, our people went abroad for health care. Now they come to Türkiye from all over the world for healthcare.

"We literally rebuilt the health infrastructure."