 As part of efforts to strengthen the health sector's capacity in responding to emergencies and enhancing health care delivery, the Project Implementation Unit through the Health System Strengthening Project, HSSP, recently handed over vehicles, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and laboratory consumables and reagents in a small ceremony. The Ministry of Health was handed over two panel vans, supply of pharmaceuticals, infrared thermometers, and universal transport kits. The St. Jude Hospital received one panel van and one double carb pickup van. The Ezra Long Lab of the OKU Hospital accepted receipts of laboratory consumables and reagents. Program Coordinator of the Health System Strengthening Project and the OECS Regional Health Project, Jeanette Jean-Louis Euse, says it is a hope that the donation will make the beneficiary departments and hospitals more efficient and also boost the health sector. Today, we are delivering to the Ministry of Health Wellness and Elderly Affairs, to the St. Jude Hospital and to the OKU Hospital, specifically the Ezra Long Laboratory, much-needed resources which should assist them all in improving the delivery of care at the various institutions. Our focus at the Project Implementation Unit is not only on the provision of resources, but we are concerned about the expected impact which the use of these resources can have on the improvement of the delivery of care. We all know how the lack of resources can affect health care performance. Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Jenny Daniel, expressed gratitude to the HSSP for this donation and vowed their commitment to utilize these resources in the best way possible. We also recognize the significance of the World Bank Group, which continues to finance all major components that lead to the strengthening of our health care system in preparation for the gradual implementation of universal health coverage. I would like to thank the Project Implementation Team of the Ministry who have worked adversely over months towards the procurement of the components donated here today. The Ministry pledges and commits to the purposeful and strategic utilization of all components in our move to strengthen our health care system. Minister for Health, the Honourable Moses Jabatis, welcomed the support provided under HSSP and says this signifies a move in the direction of achieving universal health coverage in St. Klosho. The donations this morning, while they may be physical, vehicles, pharmaceuticals, reagents, while these may be physical, they all form very important parts of this whole milieu, if you wish, and this whole puzzle, which we have to put together to achieve universal health or universal health care in St. Lucia. I want to thank you for your commitment and your dedication, and I want to say to the staff of the St. Jude Hospital, staff of the OKEU Hospital, and also the other departments of the Ministry, those professionals will be benefiting from the use of the vehicles that we care about you, we're thinking about you. Everything is not right yet, and it may take a while. But I want you to be not comforted, but I want you to know that we are working towards this goal. The Health System Strengthening Project, HSSP, invested up to 2.2 million EC dollars through Component 4 of the project, that is, Contingent Emergency Response Component CIRC. Reporting from the Project Implementation Unit within the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, I am Fennel Neptune.