Amendments to the Regulation on Hair Transplantation Units dated 3 November

On 6 May 2023, the “Regulation on Hair Transplant Units” was published to regulate the procedures and principles regarding the opening of hair transplant units, the minimum standards for hair transplantation, the determination of the personnel to work in hair transplant units and the supervision of hair transplant units.

You can access the current version of the regulation with the changes from the link: https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat?MevzuatNo=40176&MevzuatTur=7&MevzuatT ertip=5

With the amendment regulation published in the Official Gazette dated 03 November 2023 and numbered 32358, a number of amendments have been made to the Regulation on Hair Transplantation Units. We have compiled the important changes in the regulation for you:

• The phrase of being a “semi-sterile area” regarding hair transplant application rooms has been removed from the regulation with the new regulation.
• “The conditions such as the floor and wall coverings of the application room must be made of wash-resistant bacteriostatic material, the floor coverings must be covered with an antistatic material, the floors and surfaces must be cleanable with detergent, water and antiseptic solutions have been removed and instead, it has been regulated that the walls, ceilings and floors of the application rooms must be easy to clean and disinfect, appropriate ventilation conditions must be provided, the lighting system in the rooms must be arranged to provide adequate lighting.
• It is regulated that hair transplantation training will be provided by the centres authorised by the Ministry instead of the procedure of providing hair transplantation training by a number of health facilities authorised for hair transplantation.
• It is stated that the stages of collecting hair follicles and opening canals can only be performed by physicians/specialists with a hair transplant practitioner certificate, plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, skin and venereal diseases specialist physicians and physicians/specialists with a medical aesthetic certificate, and the stage of placing the hair follicles in the canals can be performed by the relevant physicians or healthcare professionals with a hair transplant auxiliary practitioner certificate.
• The requirement to use a pressurised autoclave or ultrasonographic sterilisation device for the sterilisation of the instruments used in practice has been removed and the text has been amended to state that the appropriate sterilisation method shall be used instead.
• The phrase “For patients coming from abroad within the scope of health tourism, the photograph taken in the sixth month after transplantation is not required.” has been removed from the regulation.
• “In case of detection of non-compliant practices that are not sanctioned in this Regulation in hair transplantation units opened by real and private legal entities, a period not exceeding one month is given according to the status of the non-compliance. At the end of this period, if it is determined that the contradiction has not been eliminated, an administrative fine of one per cent to three per cent of the gross service income of the previous month is imposed. If the deficiency is still not corrected, the hair transplantation activity certificate of the health institution shall be cancelled and no hair transplantation activity certificate shall be issued on behalf of this institution again.” has been removed from the regulation.
• Some deadlines in the previous version of the Regulation have also been postponed. Accordingly

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