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Project description

The project involved building a new health centre (city hospital) that offers world-standard health
services and new job opportunities to the communities in Elaziğ and neighbouring provinces.
Elaziğ Fethi Sekin City Hospital was built using the PPP model and was inaugurated by the Turkish
Ministry of Health and Renaissance Healthcare Investment in August 2018. It has been operational
since then. The health centre comprises two hospitals and one clinic with a total capacity of 1 038
beds and has 355 752 m gross internal floor area (GIFA), making it the largest healthcare complex
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in the city of Elaziğ in Turkey.

The health campus includes an 888-bed main hospital, a 150-bed high-security forensic psychiatry
hospital and a 60-unit oral and dental health centre. The main hospital facility comprises a general
hospital, a maternity and children’s hospital and a psychiatry hospital. All hospitals on the health
campus are equipped with inpatient services, outpatient clinics, diagnostic treatment departments
and support facilities.

The main hospital facility installed 872 world-class cutting-edge seismic isolators, ensuring that
Elazığ Fethi Sekin City Hospital remains unaffected from earthquakes and continues all operations
during and after an earthquake without interruption.

Sustainable Development Goals impacts

SDG 1 and 8: Reduced poverty by contributing to local employment and the providing affordable
health care.

SDG 3: Improved quality of health services and promoted well-being of communities.

SDG 5: Gender equality is ensured as the project promised to allocate 35–40 per cent of workforce
places to women.

SDG 9: Use of modern and smart technologies to provide services.

SDG 17: Partnerships between the government and private sector to build the hospital and provide
health services.

People-first elements

• High standard of health services: The development of the city hospital improves the quality
and inclusiveness of healthcare services in Turkey. It brings together a range of healthcare
service discipline and high-technology specialty hospitals into a single campus (e.g., hospitals

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