Memorial Hospital

A pioneering hospital of firsts…

• The first seamless corneal transplant was performed in Turkey.
• Bloodless liver transplant was performed for the first time in Turkey.
• Turkey’s first pediatric robotic, diabetes, and obesity surgery was performed.
• The first robotic kidney transplant to a recipient was carried out in Turkey.
• Memorial Şişli Hospital is the first Turkish hospital to receive the international JCI accreditation certificate.
• Our Şişli Hospital was also the first private hospital in Turkey licensed by the Ministry of Health for transplantation (of liver and kidney) and the relevant laboratory services in March 2004.
• The first pediatric non-haemocompatible liver transplantation in Turkey was performed at Memorial.
• Prof. Dr. Semra Kahraman, Head of Memorial In Vitro Fertilization Center, has entered the history of Turkish medicine by providing pregnancy via the micro-injection method for the first time in Turkey.
• Heart muscle cell generation from the embryonic stem cells was performed for the first time in 2004 at Memorial Hospital.
• Memorial was the first hospital in Turkey to apply methods that require advanced technology and a knowledge base, such as capsule endoscopy and endostent.
• Memorial Antalya Hospital is the one and only In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Center in Turkey accredited by the American Association of Embryology.
• Memorial Şişli Hospital’s Tissue Typing and Immunology Laboratory is the first private laboratory accredited in Turkey by the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI).
• Memorial Şişli Hospital’s In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory is the one and only IVF laboratory in Turkey accredited by the TÜRKAK Accreditation Institute as per the ISO 15189 standards.
• Turkey and kidney surgery for the first time in Europe, with a 2.5-month-old baby, robotic surgery was performed