 Parliamentary representative for Ancillary Canary's Honourable Wayne Girard has reiterated his commitment to meeting the socio-economic needs of constituents, among the priorities for Honourable Wayne Girard is providing quality healthcare to all constituents. We hear more from Rajvaro Lawrence. Officials from the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs joined minister in the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Youth Economy and Parliamentary representative for Ancillary, the Honourable Wayne Girard on a walkthrough of the completed Ancillary Wellness Centre. The building located in the heart of the village will serve residents of the community and environs and will provide staff and customers with an improved experience. Assistant Principal Nursing Officer for Community Nursing Services, Alma Dolor expressed satisfaction with the facility and highlighted comfort and ease of use among the many benefits We have the dental unit, we have pharmacy, very well done, we have the nutrition department if many persons have been come you know asking for a demonstration room which is well done and the place is spacious you could see that the nurses are going to have enough space besides the nurses we have the space for the other units like environmental health and so on so this is a facility that is really really at a standard that I know where the clients will be will be satisfied the nurses and other supporting staff will be well pleased to be able to work here and provide a service as a standard that the community will be well pleased and also the surrounding communities. Honourable Wayne Girard noted the significance of the Wellness Centre to treating the ailments plaguing the community. The important thing about the Wellness Facility is not just to deal with the injured but also to impart knowledge and information to the community. As you would see there's a kitchen at part of this facility which speaks to the nutrition and the importance of nutrition so going into the future I think it's important that we utilize the facility not just to deal with the sick but also to encourage people to take better care of themselves so that I think is a very important fundamental part going forward not just dealing with the sick but also preventing some of the issues that we are now seeing quite a bit of our local residents are suffering the non-communicable diseases the asthma, the diabetes, the COPD a lot of information could be imparted upon them right in this facility to help address some of those issues. Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, the Honourable Moses Jabatis indicated that the facility provides an avenue for expansion of medical capabilities. I mentioned to the team here today that the location of this facility right here in Ansleray gives us a perfect opportunity to begin to think about the treatment of snakebites and to begin to think about what capacities we can build locally capacities in the nurses the doctors and the other healthcare professionals and it's not too far fetched for us to begin to think of a center of excellence so to speak for the treatment of snakebites and so on and we know countries we know Ansleray, we know this whole region and we know about Federalists and so on and this facility has the space it gives us opportunities to develop all of those capacities so we have to think not only of health and wellness center in the traditional health center kind of thinking but we have to go beyond this and to see what we can develop not only for St Lucia but for the whole Caribbean. The National Insurance Property and Company Limited NIPRO facilitated the walkthrough of the Ansleray Wellness Center from the Government Information Service, Rojvaro Lawrence reporting.