WILLEMSTAD - The Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) must use its own funds before coming to the government of Curaçao to ask for a loan. The coalition parties MFK and PNP have successfully submitted a motion for this in Parliament.
The parties are supported in this by the one-man faction Trabou pa Kòrsou. According to the authors of the motion, the CMC has been awarded 2 million guilders, while it has 5 million in reserves.
The parties also request an in-depth investigation into the financing of the hospital.
The government recently approved the CMC's revised budget to cover the cost of additional IC staff.
Finance Minister Javier Silvania has ordered almost two million guilders to be paid to the hospital. According to Silvania, the CMC has, as requested, reduced the budget from roughly 2.9 million guilders to almost 2 million guilders.
Secretary-General Sharlon Melfor of the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature said at the press conference last Thursday that the additional healthcare personnel could be on the island within three days after the funds was made available by the government.