Does your social insurance scheme cover your health expenditures in Turkey?

If you reside in Turkey, your social insurance scheme (UK) could cover your health insurance expenditures in Turkey. Please contact the relevant organisation in UK for the details.

Please note that Turkish health insurers provide very cheap insurance policies and cover diagnosis/treatment of lots of diseases. They are in connection with very good private hospitals, scanning centres, and medical laboratories. No waiting lists and instant diagnosis and treatment are in question.

You can buy private health insurance policies at reasonable costs. 28 insurance companies offer health insurance products as of December 31, 2004. Health insurance products are usually, yearly renewable. Private companies offer in patient and out patient health services in private hospitals.

There are travel assistance products, contract lengths are less than one year. They offer health services during the tourists' journey in Turkey.

Furthermore, prices of pharmaceutical products are very cheap in Turkey.

If you work in Turkey, you are covered by the State health (social) insurance schemes which will let you utilise all covered health services.