Patients from Gaza arrive in Turkey for treatment

Twenty-seven patients from Gaza and their 13 attendants, who passed through the Rafah border crossing from the Gaza Strip to Egypt, arrived in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday.“Twenty-seven patients from Gaza, most of whom are cancer patients who need urgent treatment, are



in our country,” Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told reporters at the airport in Ankara.

“We established a health coordination team consisting of technical committees to bring patients to our country, especially cancer patients,” the Minister said.