Some US$207,000 (TT$1,404,820.82) worth of med­ical sup­plies have been do­nat­ed by the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment to this coun­try’s Min­istry of Health.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment from the U.S. Em­bassy, the do­nat­ed items—which were re­ceived on June 17, 2025—"will help re­plen­ish crit­i­cal in­ven­to­ry, par­tic­u­lar­ly in emer­gency and sur­gi­cal wards.”

U.S. Em­bassy Deputy Chief of Mis­sion (DCM) Char­lie Fran­ta pre­sent­ed the items to Min­is­ter of Health Dr. Lack­ram Bo­doe at the Min­istry’s head­quar­ters in Port of Spain.

The U.S. Em­bassy state­ment re­ports that the do­na­tion in­clud­ed 13 hos­pi­tal mo­bile beds, 1,000 bed­sheets, and a va­ri­ety of es­sen­tial sup­ple­men­tary med­ical sup­plies.

Min­is­ter Bo­doe con­firmed that the sup­plies will be dis­trib­uted to the Port of Spain and San Fer­nan­do gen­er­al hos­pi­tals.

“To­day’s do­na­tion reaf­firms that health­care is a shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty that tran­scends bor­ders. It rep­re­sents not on­ly the re­spon­sive­ness of our part­ners to the ex­pressed needs of our hos­pi­tals but al­so the spir­it of co­op­er­a­tion that de­fines our bi­lat­er­al re­la­tion­ship,” Min­is­ter Bo­doe said of the do­na­tion, as he thanked the Unit­ed States for its con­tin­u­ing gen­eros­i­ty.

“With in­creas­ing de­mands on our pub­lic health sys­tem,” he point­ed out, “these re­sources will go a long way in boost­ing our op­er­a­tional ca­pac­i­ty and im­prov­ing pa­tient out­comes.”

The do­na­tion was fa­cil­i­tat­ed through the Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand’s (SOUTH­COM) Hu­man­i­tar­i­an As­sis­tance Pro­gram.

DCM Char­lie Fran­ta not­ed that the do­na­tion is “an­oth­er ex­am­ple of the Unit­ed States’ com­mit­ment to Trinidad and To­ba­go and un­der­scores our strong bi­lat­er­al ties.”

“Last De­cem­ber, the Unit­ed States pro­vid­ed dis­as­ter re­lief equip­ment and sup­plies val­ued at US$100,000 to sev­er­al agen­cies in Trinidad and To­ba­go,” re­called the Em­bassy’s Deputy Chief of Mis­sion.

“These do­na­tions are part of a larg­er SOUTH­COM hu­man­i­tar­i­an as­sis­tance pro­gram that has seen more than US$10 mil­lion in sup­port pro­vid­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go over the past decade,” he not­ed.