Ministry Of Health Oman

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is responsible for ensuring the availability of health care to the people of Oman. In course of implementing its health development plans, the Ministry's organization had to be adapted in tune with the strategies and objectives that were crystallized during 1990. These can be summarized broadly as:Governoratealization of health services and decentralization of decision making in specified technical, administrative and financial affairs,Emphasizing the role and importance of planning, Development of Education and Training in health,Emphasizing the importance of health systems research, Emphasizing the importance of governorateal and international relations. His Excellency the Minister of Health is assisted by three Undersecretaries respectively for Planning Affairs, Health Affairs, and Administrative & Financial Affairs. A number of Directorates-General and Directorates come under each of the Offices of the Undersecretaries. The organizational chart of Ministry of Health is shown in figure 1-4. The Health Council, which comes directly under HE the Minister, is responsible for providing broad directions for health development in the Sultanate. The Minister is also assisted by a number of advisors and consultants, in addition to Directorate General of Internal Audit, the Directorates of Public Relations, International Relations, Records Department and Legal Affairs. The Office of the Undersecretary for Health Affairs ensures effective and efficient delivery of comprehensive health care to the people of Oman. The Directorate General of Health Affairs (DGHA) comes under this Office and incorporates a number of directorates: Family & Community Health, Communicable Disease Surveillance and control, Non Communicable Disease Surveillance and control, Environmental Health, Malaria Eradication, Health Education, School Health, Public Health Laboratories, Blood Bank Services, Hospital Affairs , Nutrition, Primary Health Care, Nursing Affairs, Community participation, quality and patient safety and oral health. Through these Directorates, the DGHA develops the implementation policies and procedures for effecting national health policies, plans and programs with the cooperation of the governorateal health authorities, and monitors the entire health care process. It also supervises the recruitment of health care professionals.