Official Gazette dated 13 November · one publication
Procedures and principles regarding the opening, licensing, personnel, and operation of dialysis centers have been redetermined
Regulation on Dialysis Centers
Laws concerned: Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510
This new Regulation on Dialysis Centers, published by the Ministry of Health, comprehensively redefines the procedures and principles for the opening, operation, planning, licensing, and auditing of centers and units providing dialysis treatment to patients with acute and chronic renal failure. The regulation introduces up-to-date standards across many areas, ranging from the physical conditions of the centers and procurement of devices to staffing structures, medical follow-ups, and waste management. In particular, applications such as home hemodialysis, long-term dialysis at the center, and holiday dialysis have been bound by detailed rules, and the minimum numbers and working principles of personnel such as physicians, dialysis technicians, and nurses to serve in dialysis centers have been reorganized.
Furthermore, it has been made mandatory for dialysis patients to be examined at regular intervals by a nephrology specialist or a certified physician, and the process of referring patients to organ transplant centers for evaluation regarding kidney transplantation has been clarified. While the dated former regulation has been repealed, certain transitional provisions have been stipulated for existing licensed centers. This document does not directly amend Law No. 5510, but merely refers to the law in the context of the premium and insurance status of healthcare personnel working in private centers.
Article by article
Subparagraph (c) of the first paragraph of Article 18
Before Under the previous regulation, this detailed reference regarding the insurance status of healthcare personnel to work on the staff of private centers under Law No. 5510 and the requirement to issue a work certificate via the EKIP Portal were subject to different procedures.
Now Healthcare personnel shall work under a contract on the staff of private centers as insured persons within the scope of subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of Article 4 of the Social Insurance and Universal Health Insurance Law No. 5510 dated 31/5/2006. A personnel work certificate shall be issued for the healthcare personnel to work at the center via the EKIP Portal.
The obligation for healthcare personnel working in private dialysis centers to be insured under SSK (4/a) and for their work certificates to be processed through the EKIP Portal has been clarified.
Effective date
13 November 2026
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Who is affected
Dialysis centers, private healthcare institutions, nephrology specialists, dialysis technicians, and patients receiving dialysis treatment.
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