Press releases and Feature stories | St. Maarten Medical Center

On Saturday, October 26th, 2024, St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) will host its annual Women’s Health Day where it will offer free breast cancer screenings in collaboration with the Positive Foundation and the Elektralytes Foundations.From 9:00am to 2:00pm, attendees have the opportunity to receive free clinical breast exams carried out by SMMC’s Medical Specialists and local General Practitioners assisted by student physicians from the American University of the Caribbean (AUC).

St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) recently opened the island’s first breastfeeding lounge, located on the Pediatric In-Patient Ward of the hospital.

St. Maarten Medical Center and the Public Health division of the Ministry of VSA recently signed a protocol to streamline the submission and assessment of applications for the establishment of medical professionals.

International Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon Dr. Marlon Buncamper recently performed the first ever deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast surgery at St. Maarten Medical Center

A group of medical specialists of the St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) and their partners recently received a ZonMw pandemic preparedness grant for their ongoing work in respiratory tract infection surveillance.