Turkey - Pakistan Health Week was held between the dates of March 19-24, 2017 at Muzaffergarh Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Hospital and Multan Nishtar Hospital at Punjab Province of Pakistan.
A team of 14 specialist in the fields of General Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Urology, Obstetric, Orthopedics, Eye Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Neonatology, Radiology and Anesthesia and Reanimation as well as authorities from General Directorate of EU and Foreign Affairs attended the Health Week.
75 Operations, 563 Consultation and 120-hour training given to 470 Pakistani health personnel were carried out at the Health Week planned and organized by Ministry of Health on March 23 Pakistan Day.
At the Health Week organized within the scope of humanitarian activities of Ministry of Health for people in foreign countries, Pakistani people in need was provided health services on site and out of charge. Also, many operations which could not be carried out at the hospitals where Health Week was held were carried out with Pakistani physicians and experiences were exchanged. Bonds between physicians of both friendly countries were strengthened.
During the Health Week, activities of enlargement project of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Hospital initiated by Punjab Government were examined on site.
On the occasion of March 23 Pakistan Day, authorities attended the formal ceremonies held at Muzaffergarh Governorship and High School and the program organized by Nishtar Medical School at Multan on behalf of Turkey.
Activities of Health Week:
| Consultation | Training (Person) | Operation |
Orthopedics | 45 | 6 | 16 |
Eye Diseases | 33 | 100 | 6 |
General Surgery | 20 | 16 | 14 |
Obstetrics | 35 | 25 | 23 |
Urology | 18 | 15 | 12 |
Pediatric Surgery | 133 | 40 | 4 |
Anesthesia | 71 | 12 | - |
Radiology | 104 (USG-BT) | 50 | - |
Neonatology | 95 | 24 | - |
Infectious Diseases | 9 | 182 | - |
TOTAL | 563 | 470 | 75 |
