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Turkey aims to expand domestic production of medical technology
At a biomedical technology congress in Antalya, Turkey's health minister urged greater domestic medical technology production.
Kemal Memişoğlu said the country has built a large health system over the past 25 years and can serve patients from Turkey and other countries.
He said Turkey should become a production and innovation center, not just a market for health technology.
The ministry's TÜSEB agency is intended to help turn ideas into products, including by connecting ideas shared through a health portal with patent support, funding and industry.
Memişoğlu said locally made ventilators are exported to 45 countries, and a Turkish-made heart-lung machine has been used in 60 patients.
He also said domestic ultrasound production is targeted within two years, while work is under way on other products, including oxygenators and robotic surgery devices.
The ministry invited health workers and biomedical staff to submit ideas, but the sources give no further timetable for the other projects.
Turkey’s health minister said the country aims to expand domestic production and innovation in medical technology.
Kemal Memişoğlu spoke at the 3rd National Biomedical Congress in Antalya.
He said Turkey should be seen as a production and innovation centre, not only as a market.
He cited locally made ventilators exported to 45 countries and a domestically developed heart-lung machine used in 60 patients.
Turkey aims to begin domestic ultrasound production within two years, and is discussing the development of robotic surgery devices with international companies.
- Who
- Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu and participants in the biomedical technology sector.
- What
- Turkey aims to produce and develop more medical technologies domestically.
- When
- At the 3rd National Biomedical Congress; the article was published on 5 November 2026.
- Where
- Antalya, Turkey.
- Why
- Memişoğlu said Turkey has the workforce and health infrastructure to develop medical technologies and should be a production and innovation centre.
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Memişoğlu said Turkey had built significant capacity in health services.
Turkey began mass production of a domestically made ventilator.
Memişoğlu called for greater domestic production and innovation in health technology.
Turkey aims to begin producing ultrasound devices domestically.
- Congress
- 3rd National Biomedical Congress
- Location
- Antalya
- Health workforce
- About 1.5 million
- Hospital beds
- 275,000
- Ventilator exports
- 45 countries
- Ultrasound production target
- Within two years
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