Health Hygiene & Sanitation

Lesson 44 : Municipal Health Services

Components Of The Municipal Health Services

The nine components of the Municipal Health Services include:

1. Monitoring water quality and availability;
2. Food control;
3. Waste management;
4. Health surveillance of premises;
5. Surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases, excluding immunizations;
6. Vector control;
7. Environmental pollution control ;
8. Disposal of the dead;
9. Chemical safety.

The three Environmental Health services retained as provincial responsibilities are:

1. Port health services;
2. Control of major hazardous substances;
3. Malaria control.