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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

To overcome these problems, mobile healthcare services are being used to visit
residences individually. Since communicable disease is a threat to the health of the
whole community, this healthcare is offered irrespective of whether or not recipients are
registered or have temporary protection identity cards.

(Source: Anadolu News Agency)

The Ministry of Health and AFAD each provide health services by signing a “global
budget protocol” on a lump sum basis and receive services from public hospitals,
university hospitals, and private hospitals every year. All costs of inpatient treatment
services are also included in the global budget. Expenses for outpatient care, medicine,
and medical supplies are covered by AFAD. In this context, the medical expenses of
Syrians under temporary protection were covered by AFAD between the years 2011
and 2015 and during the first 6 months of 2015; in the last 6 months of 2015 the
global protocol was equal to 187,500,000 TL and in the year 2016, 1 year of the global
protocol was equal to 650,000,000 TL.

Legal regulations for the employment of Syrian healthcare professionals were included
in the “2016/8375 Regulation Regarding Work Permits for Foreigners under Temporary
Protection” published in the Official Gazette dated January 15, 2016. In this framework,

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