Press releases and Feature stories | St. Maarten Medical Center

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.

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~