{"id":186668,"date":"2026-09-05T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/minister-misiekaba-daily-hospital-rate-should-be-us200\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:20:21","slug":"minister-misiekaba-daily-hospital-rate-should-be-us200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/minister-misiekaba-daily-hospital-rate-should-be-us200\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Misiekaba: \u201cDaily hospital rate should be US$200\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cThe daily hospital rate should be US$200,\u201d Minister Andr\u00e9 Misiekaba of Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Arbeid said on Wednesday before the start of the Raad van Ministers (Council of Ministers).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">The minister said that hospitals have been requesting an adjustment to the daily hospital rates for a very long time, and the ministry has agreed to implement this. According to him, the daily hospital rates should amount to US$200, which is approximately SRD 8,000. \u201cWe will not be able to take such a major step at this time,\u201d Misiekaba stressed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">At present, the daily hospital rate at Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo is SRD 4,200, at the other hospitals it is SRD 3,600, and at Psychiatrisch Centrum Suriname it is approximately SRD 2,000. A first step is now being taken towards increasing the daily hospital rates, and these will amount to between SRD 2,000 and SRD 2,500. \u201cThe next increase will probably be achieved in January.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">With these increased daily hospital rates, the hospitals must then pay the wages of healthcare staff themselves. \u201cWe are now dealing with all administrative matters and, once everything is in order, the new salary scale will be introduced as soon as possible.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Misiekaba announces that the daily hospital rate in hospitals will be gradually increased to around US$200 (SRD 8000), with an initial increase to SRD 2000-2500 soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":144178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_29234516172805655_1309923202201307":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1158244960706604":"","facebook_29234516172805655_1093738170500407":"","facebook_29234516172805655_108923581283702":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18249],"tags":[20841,20991,20990,16291,20032,18682,16292],"class_list":["post-186668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-andre-misiekaba","tag-daily-hospital-rates","tag-hospitals","tag-key-news","tag-nieuws","tag-public-health","tag-suriname"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keynews.sr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}