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Red Cross in financial hole.

For most of us, the news that the SXM Red Cross is in financial trouble doesn't really mean a great deal, if you are reading this then most likely you are well off enough to be living in a home you are relatively comfortable with or have somewhere safe to go in a storm. This isn't about you, it is about the people at the lowest level in our society, the ones living in plywood shacks, shacks which were supposed to be eliminated after Luis.

The Red Cross supplements the services the Govt provides at shelters and you would be guessing right if you assume that isn't a great deal, few if any of the shelters even have generator and old, young and sick people could be packed away in dark and dangerous conditions.

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Social and Health Care.

A great deal of social care is carried out by NGO's such as Helping Hands, MPO, I Can, White and Yellow Cross and others. The Childrens Rights Advocate report and recommendations in October 2004 gives a fairly clear picture as does the story that follows after.
Also the St. Maarten Medical Center continues to survive, going back and forth between the Intensive Care Unit and the Recovery Ward like a yoyo. There seems to be a crisis every 3 to 6 months and instead of prescribing the right dosage of anti-biotics they use band-aids, never actually curing the problem.

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