 Stakeholders representing various government departments and non-governmental organizations participated in the review exercise, offering the input towards the important integrated health surveillance guidelines. Facilitating the exercise was retired medical practitioner and epidemiologist Dr. Mariona Bonhead. Dr. Michel Foussois, national epidemiologist, shared some further insight on the Sanluxia Paho 4D exercise. This visit was focused primarily on roles and responsibilities of everybody within the national surveillance system of St. Luxia. And so we hope in subsequent visits that we continue to build on this document till we have guidelines which would strengthen our surveillance system nationally as well as that level of data quality that we seek to inform policies and decision making. Thursday's stakeholders session involved a review of data collection methods and reporting mechanisms among other areas. The aim is to have it as an interactive document and so it may be a lengthy process sorry but we are hoping and we are pushing ahead because St. Luxia is but a pilot project right now and the hope is that it can be replicated. I'm just looking forward to the final documents and to improving our surveillance system all around. Paho's country program specialist for St. Luxia, Mr. Ronald Dewitt says Paho is pleased to be supporting the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs in the review and development of the national integrated health surveillance guidelines. We are playing a pivotal role in ensuring that the system here in St. Luxia is strengthened so that they can monitor all events in the country. When I say events I mean whether man-made or natural be it hurricanes and the consequences of a hurricane in the country. So we want to make sure that the surveillance unit has the prerequisite tools in order to monitor these events when they occur in country as you would agree that data is very important for management and for decision making. We want to ensure that the health surveillance system has a relevant platform where they can collect data, collect it accurately, store it and produce it in a manner where it can help the policy makers to make the relevant decisions that they need to make in country and for allocation of resources to respond to the needs of the population. Another Paho visit is started for March 2023 during which other pillars of the national integrated health surveillance guidelines will be reviewed. The Paho is hoping that a final document will be completed at a sufficiently high standard that it can be used as a template in other countries. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, Julia Tepita reporting.