HOSPITAL RESILIENCY AND PREPAREDNESS PROJECT

HOSPITAL RESILIENCY AND PREPAREDNESS PROJECT

Objective 

Improve the preparedness and capacity of hospital services at the Sint Maarten Medical Center, the only hospital on the island for the growing population 

Beneficiaries 
  • About 60,000 residents of Sint Maarten, Saba, and St. Eustatius 
  • 2.6 million tourists that visit Sint Maarten annually and need medical services 
Approach
BUILD BUILD a new 110-bed general hospital alongside the Sint Maarten Medical Center Foundation
INCREASE INCREASE hospital resilience against Category 5 and higher hurricanes and other disasters
FINANCE FINANCE critical upgrades to the existing hospital and help enhance hospital services
STRENGTHEN STRENGTHEN the medical center’s capacity to conduct education campaigns on COVID-19 prevention
Components 
  • Building and launching of the new hospital 
  • Transition and contingency plan for Sint Maarten Medical Center  
  • Project management