Regional Medical Officers / Regional Focal Points
Ministry of Health has created several regional focal points at each Regional Directorate of Health Services under decentralisation of public healthcare service delivery setting in Sri Lanka. Such regional focal points are reporting to RDHS of each region. Regional focal points or regional medical officers coordinate all curative and preventive regional activities under the guidance of the ministry of Health and RDHS.
Following are such focal points:
- Medical Officer Planning (MO/Planning)
- Medical Officer Quality Management Unit (MO/QMU)
- Medical Officer Health Informatics (MO/HI)
- Regional Epidemiologist (RE)
- Medical Officer Maternal and Child Health (MO/MCH)
- Medical Officer Non-Communicable Diseases (MO/NCD)
- Medical Officer Mental Health (MO/MH)
- Medical Officer Environmental and Occupational Health (MO/EOH)
- Medical Officer Sexually Transmitted Diseases (MO/STD)
- Medical Officer Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (MO/Chest)
- Regional Dental Surgeon (RDS)
- Regional Ayurvedic Physician
- Regional Bio Medical Engineer (BME)
- Divisional Pharmacist and Regional Medical Supplies Division (DP/RMSD)