WILLEMSTAD - Minister of Finance Javier Silvania is not pleased with the report of the Dutch Healthcare Authority on the Curaçao Medical Center (CMC). On Facebook, the minister lashes out at deputy secretary-general of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) Abigail Norville.
The investigation into the financial position and prospects of the CMC was completed at the end of May. This study resulted in an advisory report from the Dutch Healthcare Authority. At the request of the hospital management, 130 lines, tables and graphs were made illegible. Minister of Health, Environment and Nature (GMN) Dorothy Pietersz-Janga informed Parliament on Tuesday about the omitted information and called it 'manipulation'.
Silvania accuses the health care authority on Facebook of acting unprofessional. He calls it inappropriate for the deputy secretary-general to send a report in which essential parts have been varnished away. “We have received a report that we can do nothing with, and your researchers have been given a sweet trip and have chosen sides, namely for the CMC. Shame on you," the minister wrote.
Norville states that an invitation is open to Pietersz-Janga, which was not accepted. “Whatever you think of the report, it does not absolve you and your colleagues from the responsibility to provide solutions to raise healthcare in Curaçao and the hospital in particular to a higher level,” the deputy secretary-general responds under Silvania's story. “Put your energy in there, instead of throwing mud.”