The political blindness
“Risk management is not about future decisions, but about the future of decisions we must make now.” - Robert Charette
The attempt by the Turkish Ministry of Health to lower the hazard classification of hospitals is far more than a technical regulation; it is a typical policy case that exposes the invisible tension between public administration and politics, reveals the limits of state capacity, and shows how the very concept of risk can become politicized.
The Ministry is both the principal institution responsible for managing the riskiest areas of the health system and the bearer of an administrative culture nourished by the invisibility of those same risks. Its recent step to remove hospitals from the “very high hazard” class is, in fact, an indicator of how Türkiye’s health bureaucracy perce