Set standards for food safety and quality; safety, efficacy, quality and proper use of medicines; competence and practice of health professionals; hygiene and environmental health; competence of health and health related institutions and ensure their implementation and observance;
Issue, renew, suspend, revoke or deny certificate of competence for health institutions, food or medicines processing plants, quality control laboratories, importer, exporters, storage or distributors and trans-regional health service institutions;
Initiate policy to strengthen food, medicines, health professionals and health institutions quality and efficiency; initiate draft legislation and forward the same for approval;
result in such a way that it benefits the public; as well as cause to suspend or stop the clinical trial;
Evaluate and issue, renew, suspend, revoke or deny license for scarce health professionals, complementary or alternative medicines practitioners and health professionals coming privately or in group from abroad to deliver health service;
Ensure proper disposal of expired and unfit for use food, medicines and their raw materials;
Ensure the quality of regional water supply for the public is up to the standard;
Control, monitor and ensure the availability of necessary hygienic requirements in health related institutions under the federal government;
Provide appropriate capacity support to Woreda Health Offices on food, medicines and healthcare regulatory bodies with a view to harmonizing regional and woreda regulatory system; and
Perform other lawful activities as may be necessary for the attainment of its objectives.
