Ministry of Health

CLINICAL SERVICES

MISSION

To provide technical leadership and advice on delivery of high quality clinical services in the country

VISION

Comprehensive and high quality clinical services accessible by all Malawians. Broadly the Directorate is responsible for: 

  • Formulating (setting), promoting, enforcing and monitoring policies, standards, guidelines and protocols required for delivery of high quality clinical services.
  • Managing the External Patient Referral Program
  • Leading and coordinating the national response to Non Communicable Diseases including mental health problems
  • Leading and guiding on national delivery of clinical nutrition/dietetic services.
  • Guiding and supporting the activities of traditional practitioners through their umbrella organisation MTHUO (Malawi Traditional Healers Umbrella Organisation)

CLINICAL DIRECTORATE

The Clinical Directorate is one of the twelve main directorates in the Ministry of Health.  Other Directorates are:

  • Health Technical Support Services
  • Preventive Health Services
  • Nursing and Midwifery Services
  •  Planning and Policy Development
  •  Human Resource Management and Development
  •  Finance
  • Administration
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Reproductive Healt
  • Quality Management
  • Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

CHALLENGES

The major challenges for the Directorate and indeed the entire public health care delivery system are:

  • Inadequate basic and specialised pieces of medical equipment
  • Inadequate medicines and medical supplies
  • Inadequate human resources for health

All these have a bearing on delivery of high quality health services including clinical services.