Budget deficits, lack of oversight and unstable system swamp health sector in 2009

The Turkish health sector saw some of Turkey’s biggest economic and legislative shocks in 2009, as a government struggling with a widening budget deficit looked to ballooning health costs to curb spending, running up against healthcare workers in a battle encompassing patients, hospitals and pharmacies.
Budget deficits, lack of oversight and unstable system swamp health sector in 2009