Turkey Starts Online Health Market Project With Modifications To Ease Local Industry Concerns
Executive Summary
Turkey's project to launch an online procurement system for hospitals is formally in motion, with plans to go online by the end of the year. There have been some recent modifications to the project to ease concerns of small- and medium-sized local medtech companies.
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