WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) is struggling with increasingly explosive demand for healthcare, resulting in high financial expenditure.0
The hospital has been struggling with an insufficient budget for some time, partly due to the exceeding of construction costs by 203 million guilders. This increasing demand for care is therefore not at the right time for the CMC.
Figures show that the so-called number of 'unique insured persons of the SVB' rose by 11 percent last year. An increase can also be seen in other insurance groups.
According to the hospital, the increase in SVB (Social Insurance Bank) patients can be explained by, among other things, weak primary care. This is care that you can go to without a referral, for example, the general practitioner. In addition, according to the CMC, there is also a lack of strong one-and-a-half-line care. These are, for example, special health centers that are outside the hospital. As a result, the hospital receives many applications from patients who should actually be treated elsewhere.
The CMC receives a fixed annual care amount for medical costs of insured patients. They receive these through the basic health insurance (bvz) with the SVB, regardless of the number of patients in a year. Due to the enormous increase in patients, the costs quickly rise.
The hospital sees a sustainable reform of the social funds of the SVB and of the health care system as the solution. According to them, the influx to the CMC must become manageable.