Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital

Horacio Oduber Hospital (HOH) is a medium-sized general hospital in Aruba. The hospital building is located northwest of the capital city of Oranjestad where the Arend Petroleum Company at Eagle was formerly located. Named after physician Horacio Oduber, the 187-bed hospital was put into use in late 1976. On March 5, 1977, the official opening took place in the presence of Dutch minister De Gaay Fortman. In September 2014, the start of the hospital's expansion and renovation project began, one of the largest construction projects in Aruban history. 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. The Horacio Oduber Hospital is part of the Dutch Caribbean Hospital Alliance (DCHA) together with other hospitals in the Caribbean that are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Alliances and collaborations include the country laboratory of Curaçao (ADC), Streeklab Haarlem, the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Erasmus Medical Center (EMC), Radboud University, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Maastricht University, Xavier University, Thomas Moore in Belgium and partner hospitals in Colombia. Currently, the board members are Drs. Jacco Vroegop

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