Turkey has announced its goal of providing medical services to more than 1.5 million foreign citizens by 2023, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the republic.

This came in the words of the Turkish Health Minister Fakhruddin Koca, in a speech during his participation in a seminar entitled "Medical Tourism and Sports", with the participation of Foreign Ministers Mevlüş Çavuşo , Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Kassaboglu, held on the sidelines of the 11 Turkish Ambassadors Conference held in Ankara, according to What was quoted by "Anatolia".

The Turkish minister said that the total number of foreign patients who have been treated in his country during the current and last two years exceeded one million people.

`` The total number of foreign patients treated in Turkey in 2018 exceeded half a million, and the number of foreigners who came to Turkey for treatment in 2019 exceeded this number, '' Kocaeli added.

He pointed out that Turkey aims to increase the country's income from medical tourism sector five times what it is now, pointing out that his country is focused on promoting its medical tourism sector in the countries of Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Britain, Germany, Belgium and others.

The importance of Turkey as a destination for medical tourism around the world, driven by the development of medicine and medical centers of various specialties, is increasing day by day.

Turkey's medical tourism revenues have reached $ 4.4 billion over the past five years, according to official figures.