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Turkey's digital medical consent plan includes an SMS alternative

A hospital chief explains how patients unable to access e-Nabız could authorize procedures, as viewers raise questions about digital exclusion.

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0:59Kotanoğlu says electronic consent through e-Nabız will replace paper signatures for surgery, interventions, radiology and anesthesia.
1:52Digital records would make consent forms easier for hospitals to archive and retrieve, he explains.
2:08Patients unable to access e-Nabız could give an authorized employee a verification code sent to their phone.
2:35Patients would be able to review planned procedure details within the system.

Patients who cannot access Turkey's e-Nabız health portal would have another way to give consent for medical procedures: a verification code sent to their phone and passed to an authorized hospital employee.

That alternative is a key detail in Turkish news channel A Haber's report on the Health Ministry's move from paper consent forms to electronic authorization. Reporting from Ankara, Oğuzhan Gültekin asks Etlik City Hospital coordinating chief physician Mustafa Sırrı Kotanoğlu how the change would work.

Kotanoğlu says a new regulation replaces handwritten signatures on paper forms with electronic consent through e-Nabız. He identifies surgery, other medical interventions, radiology and anesthesia among the procedures covered. Patients would be able to review details of planned procedures and see the consent they have given within the system.

For hospitals, he says, electronic records would address the difficulties of storing paper forms and retrieving them later. An on-screen explanation also states that procedures cannot begin without identity verification.

The SMS route is intended for people unable to use e-Nabız because of health conditions, disability or technical limitations, Kotanoğlu explains. Providing the code to an authorized employee would supply the same approval.

Viewers' questions concentrate on access: how people who cannot read, older patients unfamiliar with digital services and patients arriving without someone to help would manage. The interview describes the phone-code alternative, but does not explain what happens when a patient cannot use that route either.

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