The Health Department provides curative health services and promotes preventive health care services at the grass roots level. This is done through the direct provision of services in existing Diocesan health facili­ties, community outreach and education and capacity building of community resource per­sons.

The Health Programme promoted access to affordable healthcare especially through provision of medicine, supplementary diet for malnourished children, pregnant and breast feeding mothers and the aged especially during emergence of disasters. The Trachoma control programme aims to prevent blindness