Ministry of Health and Quality of Life

General Functions and Administration

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The Ministry operates under the portfolio of the Minister of Health and Quality of Life.

The functions of the Ministry are:

• To develop a comprehensive health service in order to meet the health needs of the population;
• To investigate the influence of physical environment and psychosocial domestic factors on the incidence of human diseases and disability;
• To plan and carry out measures for the promotion of health;
• To institute and maintain measures for the prevention of diseases including the epidemiological surveillance of important communicable diseases;
• To provide facilities for the treatment of diseases, including mental disease by maintenance of hospital and dispensary services;
• To make provisions for the rehabilitation of the disabled;
• To control the practice of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy;
• To provide facilities for the training of Nursing Officers, Midwives, ancillary hospital and laboratory staff and Health Inspectors;
• To advise local government authorities regarding their health services and to inspect those services;
• To prepare and publish reports and statistical data and other information relating to health;
• To implement a Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health Programme; and
• To initiate and conduct operational bio-medical health studies of diseases of major importance in the country.

MISSION STATEMENT

• Enhance the health status of the population
• Improve the quality of health care delivery with a view to increasing patients’ satisfaction
• Enhance social equity through the provision of a wider range of health services to the whole population
• Ensure that the health sector is consolidated and that the health services remain accessible to every citizen