Trauma, regardless of its economic and health burden on society, has never been given the accordant type of emphasis in our country. It was until the last couple of years that it started to be consider as a major public health concern and much needed attention started to be given to it. The increasing burden of burn and poisoning has not yet been met with a. system that can cope. For these reasons the Ministry of Health recently took the initiative to work on injury preventive mechanisms, timely and effective treatments as well as rehabilitative care to the community. 

Intensive and critical care unit is a designated area of a hospital facility that is dedicated to the care of patients who are seriously ill. There main function is to provide optimal life support and provide adequate monitoring of vital function. A well-organized intensive and critical care services is one of the indicator of quality of health care. In light of the growing needs and the increase in burden of non-communicable disease and current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a clear gap in critical care capacity of the country.

Role and Responsibility

• Address gaps across the patient pathway.
• Prevent infection and active disease.
• Provide people-centered equitable quality TBL services.
• Enhance bold policies and strengthen supportive systems.
• Generate and use TBL strategic information and research outputs

Program Milestone, Project and Initiatives

The overall goal of the NCD program is to reduce the burden of NCDs by promoting healthy lifestyles, reducing common risk factors, and providing integrated evidence-based, innovative, and cost-effective public health and clinical interventions

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), Cancer, Eye Health, and diabetes (DM) are the four major NCD initiatives being addressed in the ministry.

The following are key objectives of the NCD initiative:

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases that cause substantial illness for more than one billion people globally. The Ministry of Health of Ethiopia has prioritized eight NTDs as diseases of public health significance. These include trachoma, soil-transmitted helminthes (STH), schistosomiasis; Lymphatic filariasis (LF), Onchocerciasis (Oncho), Dracunculiasis /Guineaworm is easing (GWD), Leishmaniasis, and Podoconiosis. Scabies has recently been added following recognition of it as NTD by WHO

National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) is one of the programs under the Disease Prevention and Control Directorate responsible for designing, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of malaria-related interventions and activities in Ethiopia. 

Roles and Responsibilities Of The NMEP 

National HIV/AIDS program is one of the programs under the Disease Prevention and Control Directorate responsible for designing, planning, and implementing; monitoring, and evaluating HIV and Viral Hepatitis related interventions and activities in Ethiopia.
 

Roles and responsibilities 

National mental, neurological and substance use health Program(NMNSP) is one of the programs under the Disease Prevention and Control Directorate is responsible for setting standards, developing and revising national guidelines, preparing national action plans including target setting, mobilizing resources necessary for capacity-building, monitoring, awareness creation, and evaluation, advocacy, and operational research, and for overseeing overall national coordination of health services and programs for mental health.

Ensure provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene services in emergencies