The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) created an Occupational Medicine
Section (OMS) that has the specifi c task of providing OSH services in the regional
and general hospital organizational structure. The creation of the OMS provided
a good opportunity to extend OSH services to every province in the country. A
remaining issue, however, was that OSH services still focused primarily on
providing services to their hospital staff and to some large-scale enterprises in
the area. OSH services were still unavailable to people working in the informal
economy due to resource limitations in terms of health personnel, fi nancing,
logistics, and other support. A clear need still existed to extend OSH services to
every health care unit under the Ministry of Public Health, especially to primary
care units at the sub-district level