News - Care & Youth

1. Care for children in unsafe home situations

   Approximately 80 vulnerable children currently live in an unsafe home situation due to the corona crisis. These children are ...

   News item | 24-04-2020 | 15:13

2. Equipment and medication for 6 mobile IC sites on Bonaire

   Respirators, medicines and protective equipment for the care of corona patients arrived at Flamingo Airport from the Netherlands ...

   News item | 12-04-2020 | 18:15

3. 30 respirators, medicines and protective equipment for care coronavirus patients to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao

   This morning a KLM flight left for Curacao with a large shipment of medical equipment, medicines and protective equipment for the ...

   News item | 10-04-2020 | 20:15

4. King visits Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport for coordination corona crisis

   On Friday afternoon April 3 His Majesty the King paid a working visit to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) in The ...

   News item | 03-04-2020 | 18:44

5. Measures against corona crisis extra tough on vulnerable children

   Vulnerable children have a particularly hard time during the corona crisis and the measures regarding ‘social distancing’.  There ...

   News item | 31-03-2020 | 14:13

6. Hospital expands with 11 medical specialists and 2 air ambulances

   In preparation for a possible spread of the Corona virus on Bonaire, far-reaching measures have been taken by the hospital. On ...

   News item | 24-03-2020 | 21:15

7. Repatriation of ZVK policyholders from Colombia

   On Friday March 20th, several charter flights from Sarpa and EZ Air will arrive from Colombia with residents of the Caribbean ...

   News item | 20-03-2020 | 18:41

8. No elective medical referrals from Caribbean Netherlands possible until further notice

   Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Colombia have closed their airspace to passenger transport from the islands of the Caribbean ...

   News item | 18-03-2020 | 20:50

9. Horacio Oduber Hospital in Aruba takes measures due to Coronavirus infections

   After it became known on March 13 that the first two people in Aruba have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus, the Horacio ...

   News item | 15-03-2020 | 21:03

10. First medical referrals ZVK from St. Eustatius to Saba a fact

    For the first time since the existence of the Health Insurance Office Caribbean Netherlands (ZVK), on Tuesday March 10th, 2020 a ...

    News item | 12-03-2020 | 15:09