Mission:

Achieving attainable health status by providing curative, preventive promotive and rehabilitative healthcare services of high quality responding to peoples’ need fairly and equitably to contribute towards national health targets.

Vision

A community without disease burden contributing towards physical, mental and social wellbeing of the province.

Objectives

• To establish and develop Health Surveillance and Information System at Provincial and district level.
• To ensure and organize curative health services of standard quality.
• To ensure the availability of comprehensive health services in each districts of Northern Province.
• To rehabilitate and reconstruct health facilities on priority basis.
• Improve the nutritional status of the vulnerable groups.
• To ensure the sustainability of projects and programmes.
• To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injuries and disabilities.
• To ensure the better financial management for the benefit of the health sector of province.
• To improve the capacity and proper deployment of competent Health care workforce.
• To coordinate and facilitate all stakeholders in the Health sector to achieve the national and provincial goals for health.

Function

• Co-ordinate the health activities among districts with all Regional Directors of Health Services.
•  Ensure uninterrupted service delivery through the health institutions in the province by timely, adequate supply of Drugs, Dressings, Equipment and consumables.
•  Ensure provision of primary health care services to the population in the province including the returnees and internally displaced population.
•  Organize activities of prevention of communicable diseases such as Dengue, Malaria, TB, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Rabies.
•  Co-ordinate with health policy matters at the provincial level and provide technical assistance in making decisions.
•  Make link between Provincial Ministries, Provincial Authorities and Line Ministries.
• Ensure better financial management for the benefit of the health sector of the province.
• Organize ways and means of inventory control and ensure periodic board of surveys annually.
• Organize disposal of unserviceable and obsolete items and grant write off authority.
• Implementation, supervision, monitoring & evaluation of Annual Implementation Programme and other Capital Programmes.
• Ensure the quality services rendered by implementing quality assurance.
• Improve the clinical training facilities and ensure the regular staff training.
• Attend for the public complaints promptly and ensure the investigations and disciplinary actions are carried out properly.
• Make effort to fulfill the vacancies of the institutions.
• Maintain Health Sector Data Base (including sectoral atlas for the Health Sector, Northern Province)
• Create better environment to improve ability and efficiency of the health staff.
• Regulate private health sector facilities within the province and coordinate with Central Ministry.