ÇANKAYA MUNICIPALITY ANNOUNCED THE CITY HEALTH INVENTORY

12 April 2018 Thursday 11:27

Çankaya Mayor Alper Tasdelen explained Çankaya's Health Map and Çankaya City Health 2019-2023 Development Plan.

Taşdelen: "We will proceed more scientific way, seeing what problems are more important."

Çankaya Mayor Alper Tasdelen explained Çankaya's Health Map and Çankaya City Health 2019-2023 Development Plan.

Taşdelen, talked in the meeting held in Çankaya Municipality Service building, said that they could work in a much more scientific way with the prepared data.  Taşdelen said, "We have classified very serious knowledge in almost every field about our citizens living in Çankaya from age to gender, from illness to education, from participation in cultural and artistic activities to immigration."

Emphasizing that the data will be the basis for the studies, Taşdelen said, "This study shows us which problems are more important. I think every local government and public institution should work on a scientific basis, "he said.

Çankaya Municipality s the first municipality that determines strategy about the data out of the city. Moreover, with worked on data, they  also prepared in case the World Health Organization's 7th phase in 100th year of the Rebuplic.

"WE WORK FOR ALL SEGMENTS"

Having emphasized that the activities of the Healthy Cities Association, which started in 1994, reached a great scope, Taşdelen said:

"We work for all segments and produce special projects in Çankaya where 17 percent of the Ankara population lives, the most intense age range is 20-24, the literacy rate is 98 percent, and the poverty rate is below 5 percent.

We have prepared a 'Local Equality Action Plan' in the field of gender equality as well as many other activities such as kindergartens, women's shelters, counseling centers, home care and health care services. We have also signed the Covenant of Mayors in the field of climate and environment. We prepared the Energy Action Plan. We are recycling our waste, we are applying the Rain Harvest Project in our parks. "

Turkey Representative from the World Health Organization Dr. Bahadır Sucaklı also said that it is very important for the local governments to work in the field of health by expressing that "Mayor is not a health care professional and he is very happy to have such a dominant position in health field". Murat Ar, Director of Healthy Cities Association, stated that Çankaya Municipality is inspired by healthy city studies.

NEW PROTOCOL OF HEALTH CARD IN THE  1ST YEAR

At the meeting, a discount protocol was signed with the representatives of Özel Yüzüncü Yıl Hospital, Lokman Hekim Akay and Middle East Drop Medical Center, which provides discounts up to 50 percent in private health institutions, distributed to 50 thousand people. In the 1st year of Health Card, the number of hospitals increased to 38 in the discount protocol made with private health institutions.

Çankaya Municipality CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chairman Bülent Ateşoğulları and Mayor Vice Presidents , academicians from Hacettepe, Gazi and Başkent Universities , representatives of provincial and district health directorates also participated the meeting.  

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