Medical referrals to Aruba
On February 2nd 2020, The Health Insurance Office Caribbean Netherlands (ZVK) received report of the Board of Directors of the Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital (HOH) in which was announced that of that date the hospital is able to receive patients from abroad, including the islands of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba, for elective and emergency operations.
On this basis, the ZVK, in close consultation with the management of Fundashon Mariadal, draw up a contingency plan, with which the waiting list of patients who have to undergone surgery at the hospital in Aruba, will be minimized within a foreseeable time. Priority will be given to patients who were already on Aruba or about to leave for Aruba for medical care , at the time of the malfunctioning of the HOH.