Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that two hospitals with a capacity of 1,000 beds each are being built in Istanbul – the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus cases – to treat infected patients.
In Turkey, 649 coronavirus-related deaths and 30,217 cases were recorded, according to official data released on Monday.
Health minister Fahrettin Koca said last week that more than half of the cases were registered in the country’s economic capital and largest city, Istanbul, and Erdogan said Turkey had mobilized all of its means to combat the threat and insured that it was in the Turkish hospitals have no problems diagnosing and treating the disease.
We will complete them (the two hospitals) within 45 days and open them to the public service, ”Erdogan said in a television speech. One of the hospitals is to be built on the European side on the site of the city’s former international airport, the other one-story hospital in Sancaktepe on the Asian side of Istanbul.
As part of the stricter measures to curb the spread of the virus, Turkey has suspended international flights, banned mass prayers and gatherings, and closed schools. “With the additional measures we are taking, we will overcome this pandemic with Europe and the world,” said the Turkish head of state ..
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