Health Ministry

Top court's vaccine decision should be read correctly

Mother Halime Sare Aysal and father Mustafa Aysal did not want to have their newborn baby vaccinated with the vaccines the Health Ministry defines as "compulsory." 

The U?ak Provincial Directorate of the Family and Social Policies Ministry took the couple to court in 2012. The ministry demanded a court order so that the couple's child would be vaccinated.

Armored ambulances will serve in clash-hit southeastern Turkish districts

The Health Ministry will deploy armored ambulances in Turkey's southeastern and eastern provinces, where clashes between security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have intensified, Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has said. 

 "Armored vehicles will serve in those regions," said Müezzion?lu during an interview on broadcaster TGRT late Dec. 23. 

Turkey top spot for eye surgeries with over 40,000 operations a year: Experts

Turkey has ranked as the world's top country for the number of eye surgeries done annually according to a senior Health Ministry official, as over 40,000 operations are carried out yearly in Turkey, mainly on foreign patients amid rapidly rising demand. 

Turkey 'top destination for hair transplant surgery'

Turkey ranks the world's first for the number of hair transplant operations carried out, amid rapidly rising demand from Arab citizens from Gulf countries.

A senior official from the Health Ministry, Ömer Tontu?, said over 200 hair transplant operations were carried out daily in Turkey, mainly on foreign patients. 

Inns become beauty centers in the town of fairy chimneys

Three rock-carved inns in Cappadocia have turned into a mud bath facility, with the aim of creating a different tourism alternative in the region Turkey's first rock-carved underground mud bath will serve in the Cappadocia region, as local inns, which served as lemon storage facilities in the past, have been reorganized into an new tourist attraction. 

Bootleg alcohol kills six in Istanbul while police detain 15 suspects

Counterfeit rak? consumption has killed six and poisoned dozens more, with nine in critical condition, prompting police to launch operations in four Istanbul districts, detaining 15 suspected of producing bootleg alcohol. 

Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu said that six people had died and 23 others are currently under treatment at hospitals.

Hitachi in serious talks with Turkey to cooperate in air rail system: CEO

Hitachi Turkey General Manager Erman Akgün has said the company is at a serious point in talks with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality to take part in a new air rail (havaray) project to help relieve traffic in the notoriously congested city. 

Akgün said the company may use long-term financing in the Japanese yen from a number of Japanese state-backed financial institutions. 

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