The problems that health personnel have been experiencing for years in Turkey and for which no solution has been implemented yet, used to shed their patience when a health worker died after a long shift. History professor İlber Ortaylı was among those who expressed his concerns about the situation. Ortaylı drew attention to many problems, from wages to treatment.
Healthcare workers, who saved and continue to save millions of lives with countless sacrifices in our country during the pandemic period, have been on the agenda recently due to difficult working conditions. These working conditions include salaries, working hours and the treatment of workers by patients. Recently, healthcare workers 36 hour shift in traffic after exhaustion accident killed Due to Doctor Rümeysa Berin Şena, they showed their reactions on social media and almost rebelled against the situation. A similar reaction came, this time from İlber Ortaylı.
İlber Ortaylı, one of Turkey’s leading historians, talked about the great problems of the health sector with his social media accounts. Ortaylı stated that Turkish health workers work under the worst conditions and receive insufficient salaries. “soon we will be without a doctor, without a nurse” said.
“Doctor, nurse tattoo fashion continues”
İlber Ortaylı shared his statement, which was also published in the newspapers, on his social media accounts today. 36 hour watch Doctor Rümeysa Berin Şena’s was not the first of the news about the doctors who lost their lives or survived the dangers. It is certain that there were tens of thousands of health workers who had problems due to abnormal seizure periods before, but we can say that the last event carried their patience.
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Along with the health workers and citizens in general who complained about the situation, İlber Ortaylı also expressed his concerns about the situation on social media. Pointing out that doctors and nurses migrated abroad one by one, Ortaylı explained the ordeal of the employees with these words:
Courses teaching languages such as Dutch, Swedish, German are full of doctors and medical staff. What should they do? Salaries are in the middle; Can a specialist doctor be hired for 7-8 thousand TL at this cost of living? Moreover, the doctor and nurse tattoo fashion continues. Especially if the last incident (that is, the capture of three nurses by a criminal) I would be surprised if it was not a typical outsourced organization. Because in the pandemic crisis, it was understood that the medical staff in the West could not keep up with ours in terms of effort and skill. How do they know they don’t want to close the gap like that? The crazy guy entered the hospital in the ambulance and made a mess by taking our three nurses hostage. If he’s crazy, where are the asylum, the psychiatric clinics? Why is the law regulating this not prepared? Hospitals began to suffer from staff shortages. Europe’s most devoted personnel are forced to flee their homes. Are we a society that deserves to be without a hospital? For two centuries, we have raised our children in the field of medicine with great sacrifice. Where will the limits of this instability stand? A man was a minister in the past, he thought he was doing business by removing the Turkish pseudonym from the doors of the hospitals, his purpose is clear. Beriki comes and says, “Health personnel are at your service.” Even the “Patrician” gentlemen of Rome did not use such nasty words for Greek slave physicians.. When are we going to get smarter and let everyone put their place? Before the bullying occurs, it is necessary to get the job done with sensible legal measures. We don’t even want to imagine what we will be exposed to.