In video interviews, foreign expats who have long lived in Turkey voiced their admiration for Turkey’s healthcare system and its COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
In videos called Bu Topraklara Asik (In Love with These Lands) posted online by Turkey’s Communications Directorate, Italian, German, British, and Greek nationals who settled down in coastal provinces of Balikesir, Izmir, Mugla, and Antalya compared Turkey’s healthcare system favorably with that of their home countries.
“We are grateful to all our public officials, especially our healthcare professionals, who do their work in an effort that would set an example for the world in the fight against coronavirus,” Fahrettin Altun, the directorate head, said on Twitter.
Since it launched a mass inoculation drive in mid-January, Turkey has administered over 42.5 million doses of vaccines.
Healthcare system better in Turkey
Turkish society is very careful about measures for the pandemic. People maintain social distance, and masks are worn everywhere. “Here they look after old people who can’t go shopping,” said German national Michael Wigant, who lives in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.
“What the government has done here during the shutdown period is much better than what was done in Germany,” he said, adding that medical support is better.
