Turkey: Patients to cast votes in mobile ballot boxes

ANKARA

Patients in Turkey who are unable make it to polling stations will get a chance to vote at home in the upcoming local elections, the Health Minister said Thursday.

For Sunday's local elections, patients who are hospitalized and receiving home care services, will be transferred to polling stations, while mobile ballot boxes will reach the ill who cannot travel to polling booths, Fahrettin Koca told Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk.

Around 12,000 hospitalized voters will be brought to ballot boxes to cast their votes. A total of 7,000 personnel will be deployed for this service, Koca said.

Touching on the legal regulation for foreign doctors, he said doctors can work in city hospitals if necessary.

Turkey’s city hospitals, also known as city hospital complex, offer a modern healthcare environment with a diverse array of high-quality facilities, including five-star hotel accommodations.

So far, nine city hospitals have been put into service in Adana, Mersin, Isparta, Yozgat, Kayseri, Manisa, Elazig, Eskisehir and Ankara provinces. Two more are expected to open in 2019.

*Writing by Faruk Zorlu

ANKARA

Patients in Turkey who are unable make it to polling stations will get a chance to vote at home in the upcoming local elections, the Health Minister said Thursday.

Around 12,000 hospitalized voters will be brought to ballot boxes to cast their votes. A total of 7,000 personnel will be deployed for this service, Koca said.

Touching on the legal regulation for foreign doctors, he said doctors can work in city hospitals if necessary.

Turkey’s city hospitals, also known as city hospital complex, offer a modern healthcare environment with a diverse array of high-quality facilities, including five-star hotel accommodations.

So far, nine city hospitals have been put into service in Adana, Mersin, Isparta, Yozgat, Kayseri, Manisa, Elazig, Eskisehir and Ankara provinces. Two more are expected to open in 2019.

*Writing by Faruk Zorlu