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Turkey’s health minister urges students to innovate and says 38,000 staff will be hired
Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu urged students at Bartın University in Turkey to invent and create during a speech at the university’s academic year opening.
He said Turkey has the knowledge, skilled people and infrastructure needed to develop new ideas, and that health care has advanced greatly over the past 25 years.
Memişoğlu also argued that the country should build on its health-focused traditions and that young people should work together despite their differences.
He said the Health Ministry’s main task is to help people stay healthy before they become ill, rather than only treating disease.
He urged people to quit smoking, saying the ministry provides free medicine to those trying to stop.
In response to a question about midwives, he said the ministry plans to recruit 38,000 non-physician staff and enough midwives.
He asked midwives to support pregnant women, but gave no timetable for the hiring.
Turkey’s health minister, Kemal Memişoğlu, urged young people to produce new ideas and inventions during a speech at Bartın University.
He said Turkey has the knowledge, workforce and infrastructure to contribute new ideas in science and health.
Memişoğlu said the Health Ministry would hire 38,000 non-physician staff and employ enough midwives.
He also urged young people to work together and become stronger.
- Who
- Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu addressed students at Bartın University.
- What
- He urged young people to innovate and said the ministry would hire 38,000 non-physician staff.
- When
- The article was published on November 3, 2026.
- Where
- Bartın University, in Bartın, Turkey.
- Why
- He said Turkey has the knowledge, workforce and infrastructure needed to develop new ideas.
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The “Natural Is Normal Birth” program was launched under the patronage of Emine Erdoğan, Memişoğlu said.
Memişoğlu spoke at Bartın University’s academic year opening program and answered students’ questions.
- Minister
- Kemal Memişoğlu
- University
- Bartın University
- Hiring plan
- 38,000 non-physician staff
- Midwives
- The ministry said it would employ enough midwives
- Program launch
- Natural Is Normal Birth” began in November 2024
What people are saying
You will say new things, you will invent things. We tell young people, “Come up with inventions.
This country now has the knowledge, workforce and infrastructure to say something new in every field, including science and health.
We will provide the medicine free of charge to people who want to quit smoking.