Monitoring the situation

By Hilbert Haar The explosion of corona-virus infections on our island should not come as a surprise: it was expected. One reason is, according to a press release issued by Prime Minister Jacobs, the “systematic More...

Alarming spike in corona-infections

PHILIPSBURG – The COVID-19 crisis seems to be raising its ugly head again as reports came in claiming that initially three patients with corona-virus related illnesses were hospitalized at the St. Maarten Medical More...

Save Lives Clean Your Hands

GREAT BAY — Sint Maarten (DCOMM) — According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health care-associated infections, infections acquired during delivery of health care, are common and are a risk factor More...

Dangerous places

Hospitals are dangerous places and after reading the results of a study that was published in the journal Plos Medicine you may want to think twice about going there. The study found that 91,000 people die every More...