Iraqi physicians and nurses complete certificate programs in Acibadem

Acibadem Healthcare Group provides premium healthcare services through nine general hospitals and eight out-patient medical centers all around Turkey. Acibadem conducts operation with 7.500 staff and had 1.4 million out-patient and 350.000 inpatient admissions in 2008. Acibadem Healthcare Group shares experiences with health professionals from neighbor countries of Turkey. Those countries would be counted as Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Kuwait, Bulgaria, etc. Diabetes physician, nurse, several surgery applications, paramedic training, emergency trainings, patient training programs are some of those programs given by Acibadem Healthcare Group.

Diabetes nurse, Nesrir Majid Bahram, stated that they heard about the experience, knowledge and technology of Acibadem Healthcare Group on diabetes, so they came to Turkey; said, "The most critical step in treatment of diabetes disease is the efficient training of the patients. Every year, there are new developments in the treatment of diseases and it cannot be accepted to stay unaware of such developments for the physician and nurses. Yes, we have left behind very big wars. But the life is going on, we are doing our best to serve our people Acibadem provided us an important opportunity to explain the details of the training; we will give to our patients."

Diabetes Trainig Nurses, Oznur Yuce and Yasemin Kanek expressed the following about the training studies, "We have aimed to make our colleagues aware of diabetes and the basic concepts; to be able to make the treatment of a diabetes patient and exhibit appropriate nursing approach, and to be able to take the necessary initiatives to improve the life quality of a diabetes patient, and also aimed to provide update in professional development of knowledge and practices about functioning of diabetes centers, roles and responsibilities of a diabetes nurse, inter-team communication as well as communication with patients and patients' relatives. We feel ourselves very lucky because we had the opportunity to share information with Iraqi colleagues by this training program and look forward to see them in the next update training."

Dr. Dlear Anwer Kakl, and the diabetes nurses, Viyan Ahmet Mohammad, Mustafa Akram Mohammad, Nesrin Majid Bahram ve Dilsad Mustafa Mohammad participated in the trainings which lasted for about two weeks. During the training study in which Internal Diseases and Diabetes Specialist, Dr. Yaser Suleymanoglu, of Acıbadem and the Diabetes Training Nurses, Oznur Yuce and Yasemin Kanek, as wells as Nutritionist Ipek Cirifin were assigned; the Iraqi nurses found the opportunity to update their knowledge. The Internal Diseases and Diabetes Specialist, Dr. Dlear Anwer Kakl, told that they have worked at a private diabetes center located in Arbil in Iraq, and indicated that the incidence of diabetes has increased due to nutrition deficiency and inadequacy of health conditions during war in Iraq.

Dr. Kakl, stated that increase in number of patients, brought need for more information and experience in diabetes treatment and follow-up and added, "The war changed the lives of our people. The troubles continued even after the war finished. Moreover, the traumas, stress in community increased diabetes. We were in difficulty to assist our patients with diabetes which began to be more common in children, teens and adults. We came to Turkey, to Acibadem to get updates and the latest applications in the treatments, improving ourselves and giving better service to our patients. We are happy to be in Acibadem and the entire staff behaved us so closely. They have assisted us in all our questions and needs. Acibadem staff shared with us the most recent developments on diabetes, treatment approaches, and their knowledge and experiences in the trainings to be given by the nurses to the patients. At the end of those two weeks, we are satisfied with our training as leaving Acibadem and we have already scheduled next training programs for six months later."