Health and Human Service Secretariate

Health and Human Service Secretariate

The Health & Human Services Secretariat (HHSS) was established by the Presidential Order No. 1 of 2004 as a self-accounting Mandate Secretariat under the Federal Capital Territory Administration with the responsibility of overseeing the health sector of FCT in all its ramifications.

Functions

The Secretariat has the following basic functions:

  • Provision of medical and hospital services.
  • Health policy formulation and planning
  • Regulatory and oversight functions for all private medical service providers.
  • Provision of primary health care, disease control and health promotion.
  • Health manpower development.

Departments

The Secretariat is headed by the Secretary with the following departments and units:

  1. Hospitals Management Board:
  2. Abuja Central Medical Stores:
  • FCT Emergency Medical Services (EMS):
  1. Procurement & Due Process division:
  2. FCT Health (insurance) Services Scheme [FHSS]
  3. FCT Agency for Control of Aids (FACA)
  • Works Division
  • Private Health Establishment, Monitoring & Registration Committee (PHERMC)
  1. Department of Administration and Finance
  2. Department of Nursing Services

Department of Pharmaceutical Services

  1. Department of Medical and Diagnostics
  • Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics (HPRS)
  • Department of Public Health

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