WILLEMSTAD - The umbrella organization of care institutions in Curaçao reacts with surprise to statements from the minister as if she would be in conversation with them. Nothing could be further from the truth, according to the letter that Lionel Sint Jacobs, chairman of the Foundation for Care Institutions Federation, sent to Minister Dorothy Pietersz-Janga.
“Despite the many attempts by the healthcare federation to discuss the dire financial situation of the healthcare institutions with you, neither the healthcare federation nor the individual healthcare institutions affiliated with the healthcare federation have until today been given the opportunity to discuss this with you or to exchange ideas,” said the chairman. An appointment was scheduled for the second or third week of May to talk about it, but that appointment fell through.
And the healthcare federation regrets that. "Since you took office, you have not even sat down with us once, while we have expressed our cry for help several times in writing about the gradually untenable situation of the care institutions," says Sint Jacobs.
Top incomes
The minister's statement that the cause of the financial problems of the healthcare institutions can be found in the salaries of the top management of the institutions is also completely incorrect, Sint Jacobs writes. "They only form a fraction of the total healthcare costs and there is certainly no question of unusually high-top incomes."
According to the chairman, the policy of the minister is precisely the cause of the current precarious financial situation in the healthcare sector. The freezing and sometimes even the implementation of cuts on the budgets of the healthcare institutions are to blame, together with the annual price increases.