500,000 health tourists came to Turkey in 2015

 01-May-16, Times Of Oman 

Last year Turkey hosted more than a half million health tourists. Hasan Arslanyuregi, International Services Group Manager explains how Yeditepe University Healthcare Instutions has made its mark as Turkey’s biggest healthcare and education brand while taking pride in their successful international promotion of Turkey through effective delivery of healthcare services to a diverse range of cultures. 

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As one of the world’s most popular holiday destinations, Turkey’s appeal in recent years has extended beyond sea and sun vacations to the area of health tourism. It is not just the country’s fabulous touristic facilities, but its world-beating hi-tech hospitals and its doctors who are accomplished in specialist treatments and operations, that are now making a mark. People from all around the world are beating a path to a Turkish health tourism sector that is rapidly on its way to becoming a ‘brand’.

Turkey is no longer only favored for cosmetic, eye and dental surgery, but also for higher risk treatments. Advanced ear surgery, blood pressure reduction renal denervation, robotic treatments for stomach, uterine, ovarian, prostate and kidney cancers, revolutionary robotic surgery techniques, surgery for shaking disorders, successful robotic obesity surgery, and stem cell treatments, epilepsy surgeries, organ transplantations are a few examples.

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