WILLEMSTAD - The Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) will receive an additional 4.1 million guilders to cover elective care in December. This is reported by Minister of Finance, Javier Silvania on social media.
Government accounting firm SOAB has approved the additional financing. Payment is made by the Social Insurance Bank (SVB).
At the beginning of December, the Council of Ministers (RvM), on the recommendation of Silvania, agreed to provide an advance to the CMC for the continuation of elective care in December. This was stopped by the hospital in October in order to continue to provide acute medical care. The CMC is struggling with major shortages due to an insufficient budget from SVB.
The advance amount guarantees elective care to the SVB insured persons until 31 December. The CMC must also systematically reduce the waiting lists.
The 4.1 million guilders would only be paid after the hospital in Otrobanda has accounted for the use of the extra financial resources in November. The hospital also had to cooperate in an investigation into the rates charged by the CMC for healthcare. This investigation is being conducted by the Dutch Healthcare Authority, in collaboration with the Curaçao Healthcare Authority that is currently being established and other local entities. The recommendations that follow from the investigation are not without obligation.