Functions

Preventive & Promotive Services

  • Prevention and control of communicable diseases
  • Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
  • Maternal and Child Welfare including family planning
  • Safe drinking water and environmental sanitation
  • Ensuring adequate Nutritional Status of population
  • Health Education
  • Mental Health

Curative & Rehabilitative Services

To promote curative health at different level of health care through

  • Timely diagnosis
  • Provision of essential drugs
  • Provision of essential equipment

Referral Procedure

  • Administration and management of hospitals and dispensaries
  • Free emergency services in Hospitals
  • Drug Abuse Control
  • Treatment of communicable and non communicable diseases on affordable and equitable basis

Human Resource Development

  • Pre-service training
  • In-service training
  • Research

Other Functions

  • Planning, financing & regulation of health service
  • Control of medicines, poisons and dangerous drugs
  • Provision of essential drugs
  • Medico-legal examination of the injured and deceased
  • Service matters except those entrusted to Punjab Service Commission and SGA & ID
  • Purchase, storage and supply of medical stores and equipment