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title: "Turkey's Social Security Institution Denies To Pay Cancer Medicine"
date: "2015-04-13 18:18:39"
author: "DHA"
tags: "İstanbul"
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# Turkey's Social Security Institution Denies To Pay Cancer Medicine
\- Turkey's Social Security Institution refused to pay the bill for a medicine, Opdivo, used to cure cancer, said Murat Aslan, brother of 41-year old Necati Aslan, a street hawker, suffering from lymphosarcomata.
Murat Aslan said, the family was not able to pay 39 thousand lira (16 thousand dollars), cost of the 3-month cure. Officials from the Institute said, they would not pay the bill, because the medicine was not in the "payable medicines" list.
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\- Interview with Murat Aslan  
\- Necati Aslan in the bed in his room in the hospital  
\- Details
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