Health Policies
The goal of Ministry of Health is to promote the health of the people so as to enable them to
participate in the socio-economic development of the country and to reduce poverty. The supporting
objective is to improve equity and accessibility of basic health services, to ensure improved efficiency,
affordable costs, and high quality services, to ensure the sustainability of Ministry of Health functions, and
to protect the poor. The policies of the government for the health sector hinge upon the following 9
priorities:
- To provide basic health services, including family planning and reproductive health services, to
all people with community participation.
-To decentralize financial and administrative functions
-To develop human resources
-To foster competition among public and private sector basic on technology and professional
ethics.
-To promote people’s awareness of a healthy lifestyle and the qualifications of health care
providers
-To promote health legislation
-To pay special attention to women’s and children’ health and nutrition and to the control and
prevention of communicable diseases.
-To take into account specific priority groups such as the elderly and the disabled and specific
health issues such as mental health.
-To strengthen the Health Information System