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Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said they have significantly suppressed the epidemic since March and that they have seen an increasing trend across the country, especially in Istanbul and Bursa, after the significant decline in the country in recent weeks.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca landed at Erzurum airport with a private plane at 10:45. Minister Koca, Governor Okay Memiş, were received by Metropolitan Mayor Mehmet Sekmen. Minister Koca was greeted with flowers during his visit to the Erzurum governorate. Minister Koca, who signed the governor’s honor book, received a report from Governor Okay Memiş. Minister Koca, in a statement made after the visit to the governorate, said that they came to do examinations in Erzurum and evaluate the provinces of the region. Specifying that they made an assessment of the general situation during the visit to the governorate, Minister Koca said: “Our agenda item was the course of the coronavirus epidemic in Erzurum. We discussed our investments in health. However, we discussed the number. of patients, the state of our health services, current needs, the opportunity to consult on the issues requested to be resolved. Erzurum is one of the most important centers in the region. It is a center of attraction of the region with its tourism with its dynamic agriculture, commerce and population, and a city that never stops growing and developing. Health needs continue to increase in the future. With the coronavirus epidemic, the changing needs of our newly opened hospital. Despite investments made in our city center and districts, we also carry out assessments on health facilities that Erzurum needs differently s investments and projects. Damascus will be the explanation. “First we will visit our hospital in the city and then we will have our meetings,” he said.
‘WE HELP 150 COUNTRIES’
Stating that they have been fighting without day and without night for 7 months against the coronavirus epidemic, Minister Koca said: “Unlike many countries in the world, we have protected our resistance to this disaster thanks to our strong health infrastructure, workers qualified and dedicated health workers, strong public resources. Even in the most developed countries, the capacities of the health system and production. ” However, we have been able to provide ourselves with all kinds of supplies, from masks to protective materials, from medicines to respirators, with our national manufacturers from day one. We have satisfied our needs and extended our helping hand to more than 150 countries. Our healthcare system has passed a successful test. “We have faced the epidemic with renewed and increased capacities. We have not witnessed the sad images in our hospitals in many countries. We were able to shoulder the burden in the region by launching our Erzurum City Hospital at the beginning of the epidemic.
‘INCREASED IN THE LAST WEEK’
Saying that they have significantly suppressed the epidemic since March, especially in the last month, Minister Koca stated in his statement:
We have experienced a significant decline across the country over the past few weeks. We see that there is a growing trend across the country, especially in Istanbul and Bursa for a week. That is, we have experienced a significant decrease in the last 4-5 weeks, but it has increased since a week and in many cities. I can say that we are on an upward trend, especially in Istanbul and Bursa, which we observe. It also protects the respiratory tract from diseases. We see that the numbers improve and do not rise again in our provinces that comply with these measures. Our healthcare professionals fight tirelessly. Our doctors, who are called exhausted, our health personnel in all other branches, our support service personnel are doing their duty with heart and soul. Let it be a motivation to follow the rules. Let’s take our precautions so that our healthcare professionals can breathe. “
‘THE NUMBER OF CASES DOWN A 60 PERCENT IN ERZURUM’
Explaining that the increase in cases in Erzurum and the surrounding provinces, especially last month, was on their agenda, Minister Koca said that they continue to fight relentlessly with the close coordination they have done with governors, provincial health managers, chief doctors. and the health army. The husband of the ministers, “at the end of August and we began to take control of this increase with a quick and effective intervention that we made in Erzurum peak of life until mid-September. Erzurum almost 60 percent decrease in question has the number of cases compared to 1 month Hospitals charge our Turkish bed occupancy rate “Our rate of pneumonia to effective and widespread treatment has halved in the last month. We believe that our compatriots from Erzurum must not stop fighting to continue this decrease in the number of patients and seriously ill patients. We believe that the numbers will decrease even more with the continuation of the measures in a week and 10 days. “
‘WE HAVE MANAGED TO BREAK THE CHAIN OF POLLUTION’
Explaining that they managed to break the chain of transmission of the coronavirus, Minister Koca said at the press conference:
“We firmly believe that with the measures we will take we will be able to reduce the pace of the epidemic and our hospital burden in the region. Every day we understand better the importance of filling in the management of epidemics. one of the few countries that applies this system in the world and Turkey. Thanks to radiation, we eliminate the possibility of transmitting every positive case that we detect to another person, whether they are sick or not. Not content with this, we widened the circle by isolating even the contacts of symptom-free carriers. Regardless of symptoms or not, we view all positive cases and their contacts as risky and register them in the HES system and follow them closely. In this way we were able to break the chain of contamination. We drove hard to the countryside in Erzurum. Today we also see the effect of this. Our film crew, consisting of 248 3 people each, is quickly working on the ground in Erzurum. The average contact scan in Turkey we do in 7.6 hours. This period is approximately 7 hours in Erzurum. Both our province, our goal is to further reduce that time in general, as well as Turkey. “
‘WE CANNOT PROTECT OUR GREAT’
Minister Koca, who also warned the people of Erzurum in his speech, said: “There will be another important warning for our fellow citizens of Erzurum. When we look at the age groups of our patients, we see that we cannot protect our elderly enough. The rate of our patients over 60 years of age in Erzurum is exactly 2 times the proportion of this age group to the population. We know that this disease mainly harms our elderly. It is obvious that we must act with stricter precautions and care to protect them, ”he said.
EVALUATION MEETING OF 8 PROVINCES
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said they will hold a meeting on assessing the situation in 8 provinces in Erzurum. The husband completed his speech as follows:
“Shortly after, we will hold our Erzurum provincial assessment meeting with the participation of our provincial health director, field coordinator and chief physicians. We will consult about new measures that can be taken. We will carry out a regional diagnosis. Thus, we will evaluate the general situation in these 8 provinces and the health infrastructure in detail. After our visit to the hospital and our meeting on the health status of our 8 provinces, I will meet with you again and explain the decisions made and answer your questions.
