Otrobanda neighbourhood organisations and interest groups held a special evening to bid farewell to St. Elisabeth after over a century-and-a-half of care.
WILLEMSTAD–Curaçao’s newly built “Hospital Nobo Otrobanda” (HNO) still needs NAf. 103 million to finish the project, approximately sixteen per cent of the original construction amount.
About NAf. 20 million is also needed to purchase supplies of medicines and medical materials for a month-and-a-half. That can be deduced from the words of HNO’s Gilbert Martina, who spoke with the press last Saturday.
What is to be called Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) will open this Friday, so that personnel and patients from the outdated St. Elisabeth can move to the new adjacent facility.
Meanwhile, government assured it would not file for bankruptcy of the St. Elisabeth Hospital. The Rhuggenaath Cabinet made this commitment Monday during a meeting with the Diocese of Willemstad that owns the complex and management.
Bishop Luis Secco emphasised that St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic institute and has meant a lot to the island. He hopes that the building will have an appropriate new function in the future.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/92459-naf-103-million-needed-to-complete-new-hospital
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