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While the ministry of Health states the ICU occupancy rate in the country as 71 percent, hospitals set up makeshift intensive care units due to overcrowding, says the medical association.

"While hundreds of new cases are found in Diyarbakır every day, how do you announce 1,000 cases across Turkey?" Paylan has asked the Minister of Health.

Over the past two months, the country has seen a sharp increase in the need for intensive care for Covid-19 patients.

The number of patients in intensive care has nearly doubled since the reopening steps in early June.

The country's death toll climbed to 5,630 with 17 deaths over the pas 24 hours.

While the number of new cases, deaths and recoveries have remained relatively steady in the reopening period, patients in intensive care have doubled.

Intensive care worker Mehtap tells bianet, “We work as a team. Physicians and nurses treat the patients, we care for them. We clean their bottoms and bodies, comb their hair and shave them. But, Health Minister doesn’t even see us as health workers.”