Press releases and Feature stories | St. Maarten Medical Center

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.

The Dutch Caribbean islands have been experiencing a severe shortage of specialized nurses for the acute care units since the start of the COVID pandemic and the rapid increase in patients with the disease. Amsterdam UMC’s training institute, VUmc Academy, responded quickly to the crisis in cooperation with the hospitals on the islands, which together form the Dutch Caribbean Hospital Alliance (DCHA U.A. i.o).

In light of government’s relaxation of public masking regulations, St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) kindly reminds the public that the hospital’s universal masking policy remains in effect.

~Patients now allowed one visitor per day~

SMMC is pleased with the latest pouring of the next section of St. Maarten General Hospital (SMGH)’s basement floor, which was successfully completed on Wednesday February 23, 2022.