Medical Director of the St. Maarten Medical Center Dr. George Scot in an email to this media house said that that Dr. Randall Friday signed an admittance contract with the St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) on February 16th.
Now that parties have inked the contract which had several controversies Dr. Randal Friday of the Women's Health Clinic in Yogesh Building can now admit patients to the SMMC as of February 16th. However, the executive council still has to give Dr. Friday clearance work outside of the hospital. It is understood that Dr. Friday has to make sure the conditions of the NV is in compliance with the moratorium that is now in existence.
SMN News learnt that Sector Health Care Affairs is busy updating Dr. Friday's file but it is not clear when inspection would take place for the Women Health Clinic to open.
It is also understood that Dr. Friday plans to begin working at the hospital as early as today and he may begin operating on his patients as of Wednesday. Efforts made to contact Dr. Friday last night has proved futile up to press time.
The agreement is signed by both parties for a period of three years. Dr Randall Friday will remain the first year of the agreement in his private clinic, while the SMMC will upgrade part of the out-patient facility in order to offer suitable doctor's office in the SMMC building. After the first year Dr Randall Friday will re-locate his private clinic into the SMMC. Both parties want to work towards a fruitful relationship and have no intentions to look back in history. We are both committed to deliver quality health care and there for we have to work together in a constructive manner and that is our mutual intension.