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COVID-19 EMERGENCY ENDS IN PANDEMIC STATE AND PRIVATE HOSPITALS
History will note this date. After the Covid-19 outbreak in Turkey, now the pandemic emergencies in Turkish hospitals has entered into a new process of ‘normalization’ with a decrease in virus infection cases. Non-covid treatments have been started in the namesake pandemic hospitals.
During the epidemic period, more than 1 million outpatients, 8-9 thousand of whom are in intensive care, over 50 thousand inpatient patients have been treated. ‘Pandemic vigilance’ ends at Emergency Hospitals.
Both state and private hospital centers, where the number of inpatients from COVID-19 has dropped to almost 50 cases and the number of intensive care patients is in the 15 – 20s, as so the non-covid outpatient clinics and operating rooms have been activated and converted back to normal patients use.
Normal patients began to be admitted to the intensive care units vacated by Covid-19. That was to be postponed because of the epidemic during health services in other hospitals experienced an accumulation pandemic that will have an important position in terms of the two big hospital, in the case of a possible emergency or disaster within a few hours ‘was organized in a way that will return to serve as an emergency hospital.
In pandemic and emergency hospitals, departments such as pulmonology, internal medicine, obstetrics, and even interventional radiology now provide health care to more non-corona virus patients. The number of outpatient clinics for non-covid-19 days has already reached highs. The necessary planning was made so that the pandemic hospitals could also be used effectively after the pandemic.
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THE NUMBER OF INTENSIVE CARE PATIENTS HAS FALLEN BELOW 20
As the largest pandemic center on the European side in Istanbul, they have responded to 800 thousand outpatient applications so far.
It has been treated more than 25 thousand patients by hospitalization. Again, about 4,000-5,000 patients were treated in intensive care units. During the epidemic period, it had about 65 thousand foreign patients, both for pre-flight PCR and for treatments.
At the peak of the epidemic, it had more than 130 thousand outpatient clinic applications per day and 10,000-15,000 patient admissions per day. It had seen that the number of PCR tests has increased to 80 thousand per day. At the point where it is arrived today, about 45-50 of Covid patients are currently being treated in the wards and 5-10 of the patients are being treated in the intensive care units in Turkey.
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IT CAN REORGANIZE IN A FEW HOURS FOR EXTRAORDINARY SITUATIONS
In particular, with widespread vaccination and the Omicron variant, it is predicted that the pandemic will begin to be extinguished, as well as plans have begun to be made for the next process of emergency hospitals.
Since the day Istanbul was opened as the most important pandemic center of the Anatolian side, 1 millon 600 thousand COVID patients have been provided with health care, and 350 thousand of these were followed up inpatient, and4 thousand of patients were treated in intensive care. In fact private hospitals has been experiencing it’s calmest days in Turkey since the pandemic started.
So, it has already been focused on what plans should be nade for the post-covid-19 period quickly, after the covid-19 numbers have decreased since the beginning of April 2022. The ones focused on are the large pandemic hospitals in Istanbul that will play an active role in the post-COVID-19 period in terms of the provision of health care that has been waiting and accumulated for 2 years.
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AFTER THE TRANSITION TO FULL NORMALITY, WE CAN BECOME A HEALTH TOURISM CENTER
The number of intensive care patients in Turkey has dropped to the 20s. Of course, important changes has been made to effectively use such a large hospital spaces. Such as internal medicine, pulmonology, general surgery are using operating rooms more actively now. The angiography units now actively serves interventional radiology and cardiovascular surgeries.
Plans to open intensive care units to non-COVID-19 patients will now be used for beds for other patients. Hospitals in Turkey both state and private has started to provide serious services to non-COVID-19 patients with the newly opened polyclinics. Perhaps in the near future, after the transition to full normality, there will also be a new health tourism centers available, in the pandemic and emergency hospitals.
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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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