Press releases and Feature stories | St. Maarten Medical Center

The grade 6 class of the St. Maarten Seventh-Day Adventist School (SDA) recently donated play equipment to the pediatric in-patient ward of the St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) and gave existing patio furniture a facelift as part of their community project.

Due to the start of the hurricane season, the tower crane for the construction of the new St. Maarten General Hospital (SMGH) has been lowered and will be fully operational again within short.

On Thursday, May 26th, St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) hosted a visit of State Secretary of Kingdom Relations and Digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen and her delegation from the Netherlands.

Due to international developments, St. Maarten General Hospital (SMGH) construction activities have slowed down over the recent weeks.As a lingering result of the pandemic, there have been delays in purchasing and shipping materials and steep increases in the prices of construction materials. These challenges make it unrealistic to build the hospital at the original price and by the original due date. SMMC and the contractor (FINSO) are working on a solution to address the increased cost of mate...

On March 28, the first 31 nurses in the Dutch Caribbean and the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom received their Basic Acute Care training certificates in the presence of the Dutch State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport (M. van Ooijen) and the Ministers of Health of Aruba (D. Oduber), Curaçao (D. Pietersz-Janga) and St. Maarten (O. Ottley). The State Secretary also announced an extension to the CARIBHA program.