President Erdoğan Announces Health Investments and Good News on Personnel Recruitment
While opening the Istanbul University Çapa Campus Internal Medicine Hospital, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that recruitment for 38,000 non-physician personnel will be initiated before the end of 2026.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inaugurated the Istanbul University Çapa Campus Internal Medicine Hospital, laid the foundations for new health facilities, and shared Turkey's vision of becoming a global center of attraction in the field of healthcare.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inaugurated the Istanbul University Çapa Campus Internal Medicine Hospital while laying the foundations for the Orthopedics and Traumatology and Surgery 2 Hospital and the Deniz Abdal Mosque. Touching upon the institution's history, Erdoğan noted that the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine will celebrate its 200th anniversary next year.
The newly opened 44,000-square-meter Çapa Campus Internal Medicine Hospital houses 186 beds, including 39 intensive care beds, 56 outpatient clinics, 3 angiography units, a day-treatment capacity, offices, amphitheaters, classrooms, and a library. Equipped with earthquake isolators, the hospital has started providing services with cardiology, infectious diseases, and chest diseases departments, as well as coronary and internal medicine intensive care units. Additionally, robotic surgery applications are being carried out at the Esenyurt hospital with 200 beds, 50 intensive care beds, and 12 operating rooms.
The 7-story Orthopedics and Traumatology and Surgery 2 Hospital, whose foundation was laid, will serve on an area of 20,273 square meters with 113 beds, outpatient clinics, operating rooms, a physical therapy area, an X-ray unit, and an indoor parking lot.
Stating that 206 health facilities with an investment value of 223 billion lira have been opened in Istanbul and that the bed capacity has reached 45,390, Erdoğan indicated that this amount will reach 350 billion lira with ongoing projects. Saying that 2.6 million people visited Turkey for healthcare in 2025, Erdoğan emphasized that they will make Turkey a global center of attraction in healthcare and gave the good news that a recruitment advertisement for 38,000 non-physician personnel will be issued before the end of 2026.