CLINICAL SERVICES CLINICAL DIRECTORATE The Clinical Directorate is one of the twelve main directorates in the Ministry of Health. Other Directorates are: Health Technical Support ServicesPreventive Health ServicesNursing and Midwifery Services Planning and Policy Development Human Resource Management and Development Finance AdministrationHIV/AIDSReproductive HealtQuality ManagementNutrition 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 equipmentInadequate medicines and medical suppliesInadequate human resources for healthAll these have a bearing on delivery of high quality health services including clinical services.