Marthelise Eersel

Marthelise Eersel (born 6 April 1957) is a Surinamese civil servant and physician.

[1] Her father Hein Eersel[2] was studying at the University of Amsterdam.

They moved back to Suriname in February 1959,[3] where her younger sister Rachel was born a few months later.

[9] In July 2020, Eersel succeeded Cleopatra Jessurun as director of the national COVID-19 Crisis Management Team.

This medical centre, which specialises in treating chronically-ill patients, is a government agency as part of the One Stop Shop (OSS) Foundation.