Goals

The Ministry of Health has established the following goals in order to achieve its mission:

1.	To improve access to health services and ensure equity in health services availability and utilization.
2.	To upgrade the hospitals and all other health institutions at sub-regional,regional and national levels, and effectively link these through efficient referral.
3.	To eradicate or control further the preventable communicable diseases still prevalent in the country.
4.	To ensure adequate and reliable supply of safe and cost-effective drugs of acceptable quality, and promote its rational use.
5.	To inform and educate the people so that they adopt healthy life-styles and food habits, in order to prevent or alleviate health problems such as obesity, cardiovascular disorders and diabetes.
6.	To improve the quality of health care.
7.	To improve the cost-effectiveness of all health care services.
8.	To improve the managerial process and strengthen health system management.
9.	To seek greater and more effective participation of the people and communities in planning, implementation and evaluation of health care.
10.	To co-operate and coordinate with other ministries to monitor and evaluate the environment on a continuous basis.
11.	To promote health care human resources development so as to achieve Omanization and optimum utilization of health manpower.
12.	To strengthen health systems research as an aid to improvement of the health services in terms of its impact on health status, cost effectiveness and optimum utilization of all resources.