The Ministry of Health has identified the following national goals:

• To ensure universal access to an agreed upon set of health services of acceptable quality, utilizing the strategy of primary health care.
• To ensure survival and healthy development of children and adolescents.
• To improve the health, well-being and development for all men and women in such a way that health disparities between social groups are reduced.
• To enable all people to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles and behavior.
• To enable universal access to safe and healthy environments and living conditions.
• To eradicate, eliminate or control major diseases constituting national health problems.
• To reduce avoidable disabilities through appropriate preventive and rehabilitation measures.
• To strengthen policy, planning, information systems, organization and management in the public sector, in partnership with the private sector.
• To improve efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in the use of all resources ( financial, material and human ).
• To ensure the ongoing viability and sustainability of the health sector, both public and private.