ÇANKAYA MUNICIPALITY TAKES HOME HEALTH CARE SERVICE TO 60-KILOMETER DISTANCE

09 June 2017 Friday 16:18

Çankaya Municipality knows no distance in health care services. The municipality, which also takes service about 60-km beyond Çankaya, is providing the post-operative medical dressing to an 83-year-old patient, living in Tohumlar Neighbourhood Kuyucak Plateau.

The municipal health care teams have given home health care service to 2 thousand 263 citizens since the beginning of the year.

Çankaya Municipality continues to provide free health care services to the people of Çankaya. Çankaya Municipality, which provides free health care services to the citizens who apply to the Çankaya Public Health Center, gives primary health care service to those who cannot be able to go to the health institution.

The municipality has provided free health care services to 2 thousand 263 patients who have applied since the beginning of the year. Çankaya municipal health teams, who take home health care services to the neighborhoods connected to Çankaya but about 60 km away from the city center, are providing the post-operative medical dressing to an 83-year-old patient living in Tohumlar Neighbourhood Kuyucak Plateau.

The health care teams, who will continue providing this service until the surgical trails heal, experience the happiness of taking health care services to every citizen who needs it in wherever they live.

ALPER TAŞDELEN: "IF OUR PEOPLE ARE HAPPY WE WILL BE HAPPY TOO"

Çankaya Mayor Alper Taşdelen who underlined that health-related needs must be met unconditionally and free, and this is the basic human right, stated that they act with an understanding centered on municipal services.

Mr. Taşdelen who emphasized that they transformed the needs of social democratic municipalism into service in Çankaya, said that: "We serve our people with a human-focused service understanding rather than rant-focused. We are always with our people in sickness, and in health. Çankaya people can access the municipal services and benefit from the services when they want and need. Our health services are also free; those who need are able to take health care services at their homes, or can benefit from our oral-dental health and primary health care services in our health centers located in the neighborhoods. We initiated our Health Card service which offers discounts of up to 50 percent for the health care of our citizens for the private hospitals. Every citizen living in Çankaya can benefit unconditionally from this card. If our people are happy we will be happy too".

UNCONDITIONAL SOCIAL SUPPORT

Çankaya Municipality, which provides free health care services to the citizens who apply to the Çankaya Public Health Center, provides primary health care to those who are not be able to go to the health facility. Health care teams which visit patients at their homes under our home health care service, also provide support by informing citizens by listening their health problems and directing them to health institutions. The municipality also provides transportation services to the applicants with its own ambulances.

Citizens who convey the municipality their demand on taking health care services through the toll-free line 0850 455 02 65, can receive primary health services such as medical dressing, injection, blood pressure measurement, sugar measurement, blood sample for blood examination and patient transportation service.

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