On March 5, 1977, the official opening took place in the presence of Dutch minister De Gaay Fortman.

Including a new bed house, a three times larger emergency room, a new outpatient clinic for specialists and the remodeling of the building.

The final phase of this project will resume at the end of the year 2023 after a dispute by parties caused construction to be halted in 2022.

Since there was no hospital at that time, doctors took patients into their homes,[3] and necessary operations, including amputations, were performed only by administering lots of rum due to the lack of anesthetics.

To alleviate the need, hospices arose, including at Madiki and on Oude Schoolstraat, and a small military hospital was established at Fort Zoutman.

[7] On the initiative of Bishop Vuylsteke, the country house of plantation Sividivi, near Oranjestad, was purchased and, after temporary use as a nunnery, was converted into a hospital.

[8] The actual first Aruban hospital, San Pedro de Verona, was opened in 1920 by the Dominican Sisters.

Arend Petroleum company doctor, Adriaan Dussenbroek (1893-1965), had a small practice in Quinta del Carmen, his private residence in Bubali.

The staff is very diverse, consisting of people from Aruba and the Caribbean region as well as from European and South American countries.

Diagnostics Electrophysiology, ultrasound, X-ray, mammography, CT and MRI scans, performance testing, laparoscopy, endoscopy, bronchoscopy, coronary angiography, pathology, serology, clinical chemistry, microbiology, among others.