The mission and the main attributions of the Ministry of Health, as defined by decree n °  74-1064 of November 28, 1974 , are as follows:

Fundamental Mission:

Watch over the health of the population in order to allow the harmonious development of its physical and mental faculties and its adaptation to the natural environment and the social environment of the country by the fight against the causes of deterioration of physical well-being or mind that can affect it individually or collectively.

As such, he develops public health policy for the government, plans it, oversees its implementation and monitors execution in the areas of prevention, care, drugs, narcotics and laboratories and rehabilitation.

Main responsibilities:
In the field of prevention:

- Initiate and stimulate all forms of collective or individual education likely to improve the behavior of the population in terms of hygiene

- Provide technical assistance to all public or private organizations whose action may have repercussions on the health of the population and in particular in the areas of housing control, drinking water, food production, protection of the environment etc ...

- Implement, directly or through approved organizations, individual or collective prophylaxis actions and in particular mass vaccinations, border health control, school hygiene, maternal and child hygiene, hygiene work and the prevention of occupational diseases, nutritional education and hygiene and mental hygiene;

- Implement actions to detect diseases in order to prevent their appearance or to foresee them in time;

- To implement and ensure the execution of a family planning policy within the framework of the protection of the family, the physical and psychological development of children and the safeguard of the health of the mother.