In his speech at the 1st Samsun İkiztepe Health Summit organized by ASKON Samsun Branch, Aydın said that one of the brand faces of the Turkish Century will be the health sector.
Pointing out that the history of humanity has been deeply affected by the developments in health, Aydın said, “With the experiences he gained from here, he started to reveal very different vital methods. Finally, we experienced this again with the Kovid-19 virus and we are still experiencing its manifestations.” used the phrase.
Pointing out that humanity has evolved in a very different direction with the Kovid-19 epidemic, Aydın said, “We see that capital has changed hands, geographies have been redesigned, alliances and balances of power have been re-created. In this process, our President Erdogan has set new targets. In the vision of the Century of Turkey, the number of homework assignments has increased considerably. Our responsibilities both on behalf of our country and humanity have also increased. One of the brand faces of the Turkish Century will be the health sector. Thank God, we have already proven our maturity in this field.” he said.
Emphasizing that Turkey is a role model for other countries in the healthcare system today, Aydın continued as follows:
“We have surpassed even the most developed countries of the world with our competence in this field during the pandemic process. While the health systems of many countries collapsed, we sent medical devices to 161 countries and 12 international organizations in addition to the quality health care we offer to our citizens. We donated health supplies to many European countries. Advanced We have given hygiene materials to many countries.
All these are good developments, but we must continue to improve ourselves in this area. We say that it is time to re-raise the understanding of science, in which human beings are at the center of it, as did many great scholars of ancestors from Farabi to İbn-i Sina, from Biruni to Uluğ Bey. In addition to his recent contributions to science, Prof. Dr. We will crown this success in health again with many scientists and scientists like Aziz Sancar and our professors Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, who made the name of our country known with golden letters with the BioNTech vaccine.”
“TURKEY WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST STATES SEARCHED IN THE WORLD WHEN IT IS HEALTH”
Mentioning the importance of investments in the field of health, Aydın said:
“As a country, we demonstrate our determination in this direction with huge investments, innovative cooperation method and built city hospitals. Of course, it is extremely important to equip the inside of these large buildings with trained personnel and future technologies. Likewise, 89 out of every 100 drugs used are domestic and national. It makes us smile. We have also directed the successful steps we have taken in the field of information and technology to health technology. In this context, we are proud of our domestic and national vaccine, TURKOVAC.
Thanks to all these steps, the ratio of exports to imports in the field of medical devices has increased to 55 percent. I hope we will increase 55 percent to 80 percent and 90 percent with perseverance and effort. Turkey will be one of the first countries sought in the world with its quality service when it comes to health, we have no doubt about it. We see the steps of this a lot these days. Our city hospitals are equipped with state-of-the-art technology. With these features, he will undoubtedly be a role model to the whole world.”
Reminding that Turkey put into practice the Health Transformation Program, which is a very comprehensive and deep-rooted reform program in the field of health, in 2003-2010, Aydın said, “As a result, these reforms in the health system represent a hybrid Turkey model created by transferring and synthesizing different aspects of many different systems. In addition to this, most importantly, in a short period of time, Turkey has become a policy exporting model from a policy transferring country in the field of health.” made its assessment.
ASKON Samsun Branch President Ahmet Alp Doğru also stated that they aim to bring foreign currency to Turkey with the health summit, and stated that Samsun has an important place in medical device production in the world in terms of clustering.
Samsun Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mustafa Demir, Ondokuz Mayıs University Rector Prof. Dr. Yavuz Ünal, Rector of Samsun University Prof. Dr. Mahmut Aydın, Provincial Health Director Muhammet Ali Oruç, AK Party Provincial President Ersan Aksu and local and foreign health sector representatives attended.
Samsun Ikiztepe Health Summit, where various presentations will be made by scientists, will end on 5 November.