Contractors' pockets will be full of money while people wait in line
Billions continue to be paid for public-private partnership projects, which the government advertises as "not a penny out of the public purse." On one hand, the public's hospital burden grows, while on the other, contractors profit. While citizens can schedule appointments for tests like MRIs, endoscopy, and CT scans at least a year in advance, city hospital contractors will be paid 52 billion in rent and service fees for the first six months of this year.
'IT WILL REACH 100 BILLION TL'
CHP Hatay Deputy Nermin Yıldırım Kara told Sözcü that the Treasury will pay 52 billion 183 million TL as rent and service fees for the City Hospitals, which were opened within the framework of public-private partnerships, in the first six months of the year.
Recalling former Health Minister Fahrettin Koca's 2023 budget speech in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Kara emphasized that the total rent and service fees, which totaled 46 billion TL in 2023, had been exceeded in the first six months of 2025. He noted that the amount to be paid would reach 100 billion TL by the end of the year. Kara said, “Public-Private Partnership projects, which were implemented with the assurance that the state would not spend a single penny, have become a huge burden on the nation. The amount paid in the last 2.5 years has reached 194 billion TL. As of the end of 2024, 18 city hospitals were built within the framework of public-private partnerships. A budget of 115 billion TL will continue to flow into these projects in 2026 and 121 billion TL in 2027 as rent and service fees.”
Foreign companies became partners in the businessNermin Yildirim Kara
City The hospitals were built by companies such as Rönesans Holding, DİA Holding, Akfen İnşaat, and IC İçtaş İnşaat, which are among the government's favorite contractors.
Rönesans Holding, which built five of these hospitals, transferred its shares in Rönesans Operation Services Consultancy Inc., established in 2015 by Rönesans Health Investments Inc. and Şam Yapı Inc., to the Danish ISS Facility Management Services Inc. in 2021. The holding stated that this was not a sale and that it would collaborate with a foreign partner on the operation.
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