General Functions and Administration

• 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.