However, it is not compulsory to be treated in a state-run hospital as a number of private medical complexes do exist nationwide.

Turkish citizens are entitled to subsidized healthcare in the nation's state-run hospitals.

The extra beds will cost $16.6 million and be scattered across the state at private centers and state-run hospitals.

The pill will be available only in state-run hospitals and clinics that carry out abortions under strict controls, the manufacturers said.

Since the first reports appeared on April 10, the questions on most people's minds are how this could happen in a state-run hospital, and why.

Since then, security forces have shot several people, including a doctor who was killed in the state-run hospital.

Across town, a state-run hospital offers free medical care.

Indeed, at the state-run hospital in Lambarene, only the director is Gabonese.

They have won praise for giving more attentive service, although the state-run hospitals still rate high by international standards.

An additional unknown number were institutionalized in state-run mental hospitals.