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1. JOB RESPONSIBILITY OF
MEDICAL OFFICER IN
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
NUR FARRA NAJWA
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2. LEARNING OBJECTIVE
• By the end of seminar, students should be
able to
– List the MO job description in respect to PHC

3. INTRODUCTION

4. Medical Officer, PHC
• Captain of the health team at the primary health center.
– Devotes the morning hours attending to patients in the out-
door
– In the afternoon, supervises the field work.
• Tour programme
– All the basic health services including family planning.

5. Cont.
• Plan and implement UIP as per guidelines and ensure maximum
possible coverage of the population in the PHC.
– He will ensure proper storage of vaccine
– Proper maintenance of cold chain equipment.
– He will ensure adequate supplies of vaccine and miscellaneous
items required for the effective implementation of uip.

6. Cont.
• Ensure proper implementation of IMNCI as per guidelines.
• Visit to schools in the PHC area
– Regular intervals
– Arrange for medical check up and immunization.

7. Cont.
• Organize and conduct
– tubectomy
– vasectomy camps.
• Organize training of all health personnel
– Ex: ASHA, anganwadi worker, Dais etc.
• Ensures that national health programmes are being implemented in
area properly.
• Visits each sub-centre
– regularly on fixed days and hours
– Provides guidance, supervision and leadership to the health
team.

9. Cont.
• Spends one day in each month
– organising staff meetings at the primary health
centre
– to discuss the problems and review the progress
of health activities.

10. Cont.
• The success of a primary health centre depends
– largely on the team leadership
– which the medical officer is able to provide.
• The medical officer must be
– the planner,
– the promoter,
– the director,
– the supervisor,
– the coordinator as well as the evaluator.

11. Second Medical Officer
• The second medical officer performs identical
duties.

12. SUMMARY
 List the MO job description in respect to PHC

13. REFERENCES
• “Job Description of Members of
• The Health Team.” Park's Textbook of
Preventive and Social Medicine, by K. Park,
23nd ed., Bhanot Publishers, 2015, pp. 908