Overview
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Tanzania is the government body responsible for overseeing the country’s health sector, formulating policies, and ensuring the delivery of quality health services to all citizens. Its central offices are located in Dodoma, the nation’s capital.
Key Functions and Organizational Structure:
- Policy and Planning: Developing health policies, strategic plans, and monitoring their implementation to ensure equitable and accessible health services.
- Preventive Services Division: Focusing on epidemiology, disease control, reproductive and child health, environmental health, hygiene, sanitation, health education, promotion, and nutritional services.
- Curative Services Division: Managing public and private health services, diagnostic and healthcare technical services, traditional and alternative medicine, oral health services, and addressing non-communicable diseases, mental health, and substance abuse.
- Human Resources Development Division: Overseeing health human resources planning, training in allied health sciences and nursing services, continuing education, postgraduate training, and social welfare staff development.
- Health Quality Assurance Division: Ensuring the quality of health services through pharmaceutical services, health services inspection, emergency preparedness, response, and nursing services.
- Social Welfare Division: Addressing the needs of people with disabilities and elderly persons, family and child welfare services, early childhood development, and juvenile justice services.
- Administration and Human Resources Management Division: Handling administrative duties and human resources management to support the ministry’s operations.
- Policy and Planning Division: Focusing on policy development, planning, and monitoring and evaluation to enhance health service delivery.
- Miscellaneous Units: Including Information and Communication Technology, Legal Services, Finance and Accounts, Government Communication, Internal Audit, and Procurement Management units to support various functions of the ministry.