Giresun Training and Research Hospital Chief Physician Assoc. Dr. At the press conference he held at the hospital, Fazıl Kulaklı gave information about the number of patients, examinations and procedures reached in 2023. Stating that new devices such as tomography, radiotherapy and MRI were brought to the hospital last year, Kulaklı said that they also carried out important studies such as corneal transplantation. Kulaklı pointed out that the hospital operates at 90 percent occupancy and said, “We requested a new additional building, we started our work on the building, and we hope to receive good news about it in the near future.” said.
AUTO BREWERY SYNDROME
Stating that they are expecting patients from home and abroad through health tourism, Kulaklı continued his words as follows:
“We treated a patient with the body’s own alcohol production syndrome, called auto brewery. This patient was widely covered in the press with a term such as ‘getting drunk without drinking’. Although this patient did not drink alcohol, his alcohol level was high. Currently, Giresun Education and Research “The hospital has become the center of the treatment of this disease in Turkey. We received an offer to become the center of the Middle East as well, we need space for this, but we are making Giresun’s name known in health tourism and we will continue to do so.”
Kulaklı noted that a patient from Izmir came to Giresun for treatment and said, “There are people coming from Istanbul, our previous patient also came from Istanbul. 20-30 people called us from different provinces of Turkey. But of course, we hospitalize these patients and “We are taking these patients one by one because we do not have enough capacity to treat them and we cannot serve the patients who require normal service.” he said.
Giresun University Faculty of Medicine Medical Microbiology Specialist Assoc. Dr. Emel Uzunoğlu also said that they are on their way to becoming the center of the disease, which is treated in very few places in the world, in the Middle East. (AA)
