Observation

Some candidates answered this question well while others could not because they gave general knowledge of Health service professional’s duties instead of being specific about Public Health Department.

The expected answers are:

Functions of a Public health department

• Maintenance of environmental sanitation/refuse/sewage disposal
• Control of communicable diseases
• Promotion and enforcement of food /health and safety laws
• Town and village planning
• Immunization /inoculation/vaccination
• Enforcement of food/health and safety laws
• Keeping records of endemic/local diseases
• Promotion/dissemination of health education/information
• Issuance of health certificate to travellers
• Maintenance of industrial hygiene/health
• Mobilize community partnership action for health
• Provision of safe water supply
• Carry out health investigation
• Recording of marriages,births and deaths