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Urgent Care vs. Emergency Room: Where should you go?

Imagine yourself arriving on with a proper diagnosis
the beautiful island of Aru- and treatment since we will
ba. You've scheduled your also provide you with a pre-
days with exciting activities scription if deemed neces-
or to relax by the beach or sary. Our mission is to have
pool. Of course, the least you back on your vacation;
you would expect is to get that is why we offer quick,
sick or become in need of reliable, and efficient medi-
medical assistance. Be- cal service.
cause honestly, who does Please view our compari-
that while on vacation? son information chart: Ur-
gent Care vs. Emergency
But when that happens, Room.
you need to know who and Contact us for more infor-
where to visit. So, the first mation at +297 5860448.
step is to assess your medi- WhatsApp +297 5975549,
cal need and its urgency. info@urgentcare.aw, or
At Urgent Care Aruba, we visit our website at www.
offer medical assistance pm, Saturday from 8 am to as the alternative option. Appointment), and Gyne- urgentcare.aw or visit us at
for non-life-threatening ill- 4 pm, Sunday/Holiday from Other services offered at cology Services (With Ap- Noord 63, Noord Medical
nesses and injuries. We ac- 10 am to 2 pm. Therefore, the Urgent Care Aruba is pointment). Center.
cept walk-ins from Monday receive a better cost value X-Ray (Without Appoint- Visit us to assess your symp- Rate our service on
to Friday from 8 am to 8 than the Emergency Room ment), Ultrasound (With toms, and we'll provide you Google!q

Aruba acts to protect endangered coral reefs

ORANJESTAD — Less than a year after announc- becomes sufficiently mature to be transplanted
ing a total ban on the use of single-use plastic, onto the coral reef by Scubble Bubble divers.
Aruba has intensified its measures to protect In 2017, the island’s authority banned the use of
its endangered coral reefs. In what is claimed all single-use plastic bags, a measure that was
to be “the biggest voluntarism project” on the extended the following year to include plastic
island over a thousand volunteers - locals and cups, straws and Styrofoam boxes. The ban will
visitors alike – will congregate on the beaches be transitioned in until 2020. At the same time,
of the Dutch Caribbean island for the Aruba sunscreens with oxybenzone, which damage
Reef Care Project on 19 September. the coral, will also be banished from the island.
Aruba intends to be fossil-free by the year 2020
The volunteers efforts to clean both snorkel and in its continued efforts to preserve the island’s
dive sites, and beaches, is now supplemented natural environment and preserve its endan-
by a coral nursery, funded by Aloe Aruba, which gered coral reefs.
was recently unveiled in Savaneta. Historically, Since 1995, the Aruba Reef Care Project has
Savaneta was the island’s capital up to 1797. been perhaps the best known as well as largest nual National Coastal Clean-Up Day is carried
Aloe Aruba, which also produces coral-safe volunteer environmental initiative on the island, out each November, during which volunteers
sunscreen, is partnering local youth diving raising awareness of the need to preserve the make a clean sweep of Aruba beaches.q
group Scubble Bubbles, to help restore the is- sea environment. If you are interested in volun-
land’s coral reefs. teering for the organization, email Castro Perez Credits: Facebook & website Travel begins at 40
In its effort to save the coral reefs, the nursery will at castroperez@gmail.com.
be used to rehabilitate fragmented reef until it If you can’t make the September date, an an-

Price comparison

ORANJESTAD - The Department of Economic Af-
fairs regularly carries out price comparison in vari-
ous supermarkets on Aruba and publishes this in-
formation in the local newspapers.

The purpose of this price observation is, among
others, to give the consumer an overview of the
price differences of various basic consumer goods
on the island that can be purchased at different
supermarkets and minimarkets throughout the Is-
land.

Every location may have a different price, with this
list the different prices are compiled and show-
cased for a general view of the differences. In the
price comparison, the fact that the quality of the
products varies in the supermarkets and minimar-
kets is not taken into consideration.

All prices are in Aruban florins.