Medical Park Florya Hospital, Istanbul

"Medical Park" is a hospital group, not a hospital. It operates sites across Türkiye, and it runs organ transplantation at more than one of them — Florya in Istanbul and Antalya among them.

That has a practical consequence that catches people. A group-level page describing an organ transplantation centre, its transplant types and its team does not tell you which building any of it is in. A patient who has agreed to treatment with "Medical Park" has not yet established the hospital, the city, the surgeon, or which site's facilities and accreditation apply.

Florya is the Istanbul site that publishes an organ transplantation centre on its own domain. Its material describes the centre as continuing from Istanbul Aydın University Hospital, which is the kind of institutional history worth asking about directly — programmes that move between institutions take some things with them and leave others behind.

Medical Park's own group-level material for transplantation is more general, and the surgeons named in the list these pages were commissioned from are spread across the group rather than concentrated at one site. At least one of them — Prof. Dr. Ayhan Dinçkan — is published elsewhere as leading a transplant centre at a different hospital group entirely, which is a caution about relying on any group-level listing to tell you who is where.

Before anything else: get the hospital name, the city and the surgeon's name in writing.

The centre publishes kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, pancreas transplantation and multiple organ transplantation.

Pancreas and multi-organ transplantation are the entries that mark this as a broad programme. Pancreas transplantation is performed by relatively few units, usually for type 1 diabetes with kidney failure and often as a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant. Multi-organ transplantation — liver and kidney together, for example — is done where one organ's failure has destroyed another's, and it needs a unit able to run two reconstructions in one operation.

The published facilities are interdisciplinary surgical departments, organ transplant coordinator staff, paediatric intensive care, and paediatric subspecialties in kidney disease and gastroenterology.

The transplant coordinator staffing is worth noticing. For an international patient the coordinator is often the most consequential person in the process — they assemble the documentation an ethics committee requires, make the submission, and are usually the ones who can say whether a family's paperwork will satisfy Turkish law. A centre that staffs coordination explicitly is describing something real about how it handles cross-border cases.

The hospital describes "high technology" equipment and a high survival rate in its operations. Neither is quantified, and unquantified claims of that kind cannot be checked by anybody, so neither is repeated here as a finding.

The centre publishes approximate figures of 5,000 kidney transplants and 1,000 liver transplants.

The same pair of figures appears on Liv Hospital's organ transplantation page — a different hospital, in a different group.

Two unrelated institutions do not independently arrive at the same two round numbers. The explanation that fits is that this is a surgical team's cumulative career record, carried between institutions as senior surgeons moved. That is common in Turkish transplantation, where a lead surgeon moving private groups takes a programme and its history with them, and it is usually how the figure is meant: this team has performed approximately 5,000 kidney transplants, over careers, across institutions.

It is not a statement that this hospital has performed 5,000 kidney transplants, and it should not be read as one. A reader comparing centres on that number would be comparing a multi-decade career total against another centre's annual figure.

The question that produces a usable answer is narrower: how many kidney and liver transplants were performed at this hospital, in the last twelve months? Ask it that way, in writing, and ask the same question of every centre you are comparing. It is the only version of the question that lets you compare anything.