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ARRIVALS FOR HEALTH TOURISM SPEND 3 TIMES MORE THAN REGULAR TOURISTS
Turkey Medicals: 551 thousand 748 visitors who came for low-cost hospital health surgery in Turkey last year spent an average of 2 thousand 13 dollars per person.
Association of Travel Agencies of Turkey said, a visitor to the country for health tourism, three times more than the normal tourist spending stating, “Last year 551 thousand 748 tourists who came to Turkey for best health and treatment purposes, an average of 2 thousand 13 dollars per person level spent.” said.
Turkey Medicals, to CNN correspondent in a statement said, “Turkey has taken important steps in recent years in health tourism assessments made.” Internationally, per capita health tourism spending at the level of 6,500 dollars, the size of the medical health tourism market reached the level of 100 billion dollars, said, 551 thousand 748 visitors who came to Turkey for health treatment last year spent an average of 2 thousand 13 dollars per person.
Leisure, and hair transplantation in special hospitals or health centers, intervention in the operation as aesthetic ones, in order to benefit from the scope of the 3rd age Turkish tourism and thermal facilities are added to newcomers to the country, Turkey’s health in the field of tourism revenues as of last year, an estimated $ 2 billion is at the level stated.
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HEALTH’ TURKEY ‘BRAND SHOULD BE INTRODUCED MORE
Turkey Medicals pointed out that Turkey has increased its share of health tourism by about 25 percent every year, noting that the “Turkiye” brand needs to be promoted and marketed more in order to raise the income from this area to the top of the world ranking.
A tourist from the country for medical tourism, tourists spend money transfers, Turkey Medicals adds more than three times normal, the Ministry of health among the targets for 2023 for the purposes of medical treatment and health tourism to our country, increasing to 1.5 million the number of visitors, has at least 5 layers of increasing income by $ 10 billion to reach that reminded to us.
According to the data of the Ministry of Health, Turkey is the 5th country in the world that welcomes the most international patients after United States, Germany, Thailand, India, Turkey Medicals noted, “the most tourists in the scope of health tourism to our country come from Azerbaijan, Germany, England, Georgia and Iran. These countries are followed by countries such as Spain, Netherlands, Bulgaria, France, Russia, USA, Italy, Greece, Sweden.” said.
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THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS INCREASES DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS
Turkey Medicals, referring to Turkey’s advantages in the field of Turkish health tourism, continued words as follows:
“Turkey has an advantageous position due to its proximity to Europe, the Middle East and Gulf countries. In addition, we have many advantages in terms of climate, cultural wealth, price advantages, quality of Health Services, trained and expert medical teams and transportation network. We are in an extremely advantageous position in terms of medical tourism, SPA, wellness, thermal health tourism, sports tourism, 3rd age and disabled tourism. Therefore, we have the quality of products and services that can appeal to all segments.”
Turkey Medicals, in another statement to correspondents, who stated that “with the development of Turkish health tourism in Turkey, especially laser eye surgeries, teeth repairs, implants, hair transplantation, in-between family member an organ transplant, the number of patients coming for treatment increased in the summer months, said that one reason for this is “those who come for treatment participate in city tours in the healing process”.
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ADVICE TO HEALTH TOURISTS ARRIVING TO TURKEY
Director of International Patient Center Turkey Medicals, also recently stated that social media has become a very powerful communication tool in the field of health tourism, and in this context, many guests who come to Turkey have received offers through social media, and who advises guests who want to buy health care through social media, said:
“The most important issues to be considered can be stated as which institution the health service to be given, how long the institution can stand behind this service, whether it has an institutional structure, whether the relevant physician is registered within the scope of legal procedures. Again, apart from the relevant tool, it is also extremely important to investigate how much service provider can be preferred and how much experience they have in the relevant health service from abroad.”
We stressed that the attractive content other than health care within the scope of the package offered does not show the quality of health care, especially the transactions carried out in institutions and organizations called under the stairs, “every work to be done has a cost and value. For this reason, our most important warning is that they receive and compare prices from 3-4 different institutions for the same transaction.
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If possible, contact the doctor before the procedure and get price information from Antalya or Istanbul hospital Turkey Medicals experts, (specialist doctors and professors) and about detail of surgery or treatment procedures, that will prevent possible problems.
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
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