Turkey's Health Ministry

Hot springs in northwestern Turkey are attracting Russian vacationers looking for a way to heal various health problems.

Holidaymakers, especially those who suffer from rheumatic pain, skin and metabolic diseases, prefer Yalova province to enjoy the hot springs.

With its 28 translators operating in six different languages, the International Patient Assistance Unit (IPAU) of Turkey's Health Ministry looks forward to helping foreign patients.

Turkey's Health Ministry has signed a protocol with pastry shops and restaurants in a bid to reduce the amount of salt and sugar added to the food by 4-5 percent.

Turkey's Health Ministry will sign a protocol on Feb. 28 with pastry shops and restaurants in a bid to reduce the amount of salt and sugar added to food.

Turkey's Health Ministry and Education Ministry are set to cooperate for students who are gluten-intolerant, ordering schools across Turkey to offer gluten-free meals for pupils with the celiac disease.

Alarmed by the growing anti-vaccination sentiments among parents in recent years, Turkey's Health Ministry has taken action to reverse this potentially dangerous trend.

Turkey's Health Ministry has been planning to give Turkish hospitals authority to take up new traditional and complementary medicine practices, including blood-letting, in order to reduce medicine costs, minimize the addiction to chemical medication and fight against illegal activities done with the use of traditional medicines. 

Turkey's Health Ministry has sent a letter to the Social Security Institution (SGK), the government's health insurance scheme, to cover all medical expenses for 114 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients in the country, after an 8-month-old baby died due to a lack of financial means, according to daily Habertürk.

Turkey's Health Ministry has provided some 82,000 people who called them to quit smoking with a plan to make them abandon the habit. 

Some 2,610,000 people have called Turkey's "ALO 171," a call center that was established by the ministry with the aim of helping people to quit smoking, and 82,000 of them were presented a plan. 

Bicycles which were distributed by Turkey's Health Ministry to encourage healthy living have been put up for sale on the internet, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The free bicycles had been distributed as part of a campaign that was conducted to promote physical activity by the Education and Health Ministries.