Role of Public Health Services Department
- To supervise public health activities in the State for the State Ministry of Health.
- To brief the Hon. Commissioner and Permanent Secretary on the activities of the department.
- To coordinate projects for international partners such as WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, and NGOs that are of public health importance and significance.
- To represent the State Ministry in national public health programmes and to delegate staff where necessary.
- To implement public Health programmes of the National Council Health of the FMOH.
- To be in charge of implementing programmes on Public Health information services.
- To issue extracts of birth and deaths, exhumation and cremation.
- To be responsible for disease surveillance in the State.
- To plan, direct and supervise the control of communicable diseases, epidemic and endemic.
- To be responsible for the control of non-communicable and communicable diseases in the State.