Duties And Responsibilities

• Plan and allocate duties to subordinates and monitors the environment
• Analyses and respond to communicable disease
• Carries out routine Environmental Health and hygiene premises inspections, compiles and circulates reports to relevant authorities for corrective actions as a requirement for public health practice.
• Supervise the implementation of industrial and residential pest control
• Coordinate TB control programme in Triangle through notification of diagnosed patients, conducting mobile and static TB review clinics, TB treatment monitoring (DOTS), defaulters and contact tracing.
• Monitor refuse storage, collection, transportation and proper disposal in
• Conduct drinking water quality monitoring through collection and analysis of bacteriological and chemical priority indicators in Triangle.
• Routinely monitor cleanliness and hygiene of food handlers at their work places and educates them on hygiene standards required of them.
• Initiate operational budgets and analyses monthly expenditure for discussion with Public Health Officer.
• Conduct communicable disease surveillance, detects and reports outbreaks and respond to real-time upsurges and epidemics
• Coordinate the carrying out of epidemic disease investigations contact tracing and notifications as per legal requirement.
• Provide relevant information and consolidated feedback on public health to relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct Public health and hygiene education on communicable disease prevention and control.
• Appraise and counsel subordinates who directly reports to him or
• Coordinate environmental and surface decontamination
• Implement measures for malaria prevention and control.