The health base of the Aegean Region: Izmir City Hospital

The health center planned as a campus; It consists of a general hospital, a gynecological and children's hospital, a cardiovascular and cardiology hospital, an oncology hospital, a physical therapy hospital and a forensic psychiatric hospital.

The hospital also has a bone marrow center, organ transplant center, stroke center, sleep center and hyperbaric oxygen treatment center. The hospital, which started accepting patients on October 15, 2023, employs a total of 8,718 people, including 99 professors, 142 associate professors, 17 chief assistants, 528 specialists, 1,383 assistants, 62 general practitioners, 2,499 nurses and midwives, along with other hospital employees.

Izmir City Hospital has 337 outpatient clinics, 54 operating rooms, 450 intensive care beds and 30 dialysis beds.

In order to increase access to specialized health services and improve diagnosis, treatment, education and research activities in the hospital, 14 new units, including the Spina Bifida Unit, Pre-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease Polyclinic, Neuromuscular Diseases Unit, Comprehensive Sleep Test Service for Children, Cosmetology Unit, Endobronchial Ultrasonography Method, Medical Pharmacology Teratogenicity Consultation Unit, were put into service.

A total of 4,479 patients have received inpatient treatment so far, including 610 in the Detainee Convict Forensic Psychiatry Service, 734 in the High Security Forensic Psychiatry Service, 2,647 in the closed men's and women's wards, and 488 in the Closed Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service of the High Security Forensic Psychiatry Hospital located on the campus.

Izmir City Hospital provided healthcare services to 2 thousand foreign patients within the scope of health tourism, as well as the Aegean Region.

"We have successfully performed nearly 100 kidney transplants and nearly 400 cornea transplants."

Izmir City Hospital Chief Physician Prof. Dr. Yaprak Üstün told the AA correspondent that they continue to provide health services with the number of applications increasing day by day.

Stating that they have accepted patients from many cities of Türkiye and the world, Üstün said, "Since we opened, we have provided outpatient examination and treatment to 12 million patients. We have admitted 1.5 million patients in our emergency department. We have treated 290 thousand patients as inpatients. 66 thousand of them received treatment in the intensive care unit. In summary, we have provided health services to around 14 million patients in 3 years from the day we opened until now. We collected stem cells from 250 patients in our TÜRKKÖK unit. "We have performed newborn screening on approximately 5 thousand patients. We have successfully performed nearly 100 kidney transplants and nearly 400 corneal transplants in our hospital. We continue to perform liver and small intestine transplants. These were special surgeries." he said.

Prof. Dr. Üstün stated that 14 thousand 947 births were performed in the hospital and 1 million 470 thousand 220 imaging procedures were performed in the imaging center.

Explaining that many adult and child patients are treated at the Burn Center, Üstün said that many patients at the physical therapy and rehabilitation hospital have started walking again.

Explaining that they want to provide the best health service to the patients, Üstün said, "The people of Izmir loved it and got used to it. We received the good news of the second city hospital from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. We continue to serve Izmir with almost full occupancy. We serve 20 thousand patients daily in polyclinics and 2 thousand patients in emergency departments. I think our citizens are satisfied." he said.