According to the Rule of Business 2011, functions of the department are as under:
- Health management, planning and policy
- Policy matters relating to guidelines regarding:
- Prevention and control of infectious and contagious diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Eradication/ control of malaria
- Lepers Act
- Treatment of patients bitten by rabid animals
Adulteration of food through administration of Pure Food Ordinance, 1960 and the rules framed thereunder:
- Nutrition surveys
- Nutrition and publicity in regard to food
- Vaccination and inoculation
- Maternity and child welfare
- Port quarantine
Medical
The medical functions observed are enlisted as below:
- Regulation of medical and other professional qualifications and standards
- Medical practitioners (National Service) Act, 1950
- Medical registration including Medical Council
- Indigenous system of medicine
- Medical attendance of government servants
- Guidelines regarding levy of fee by medical officers
- Collection, compilation, registration and analysis of vital health statistics and estimation of population for future projections
- Medical institutions, chemical examination laboratories and Blood Transfusion services in the province including Blood Bank
- Control of medicinal drugs, poisons and dangerous drugs (Drugs Act and Rules)
- Medical education including Medical Schools and Colleges and institution of Dentistry
- Medical and Nursing Council
Nursing
Enlisted below are the functions defined for nursing:
- Administrative control of the entire nursing cadre in the province in respect of those working under the provincial Health department or in the teaching hospitals
- Education (local and foreign) service and pay structure of nursing cadre
Administration of the following laws and the rules framed there under:
- Service matters except those entrusted to Services and General Administration Department
- Purchase of stores and capital goods for the department
- Budget, accounts and audit matters
- Preparation of development schemes, budget, schedule of new expenditure and ADP proposals
- The Public Health (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance, 1944
- Epidemic Diseases Act, 1958
- Punjab Vaccination Ordinance, 1958 (W.P Ordinance XXVII of 1958)
- Punjab Juvenile Smoking Ordinance, 1959 (W.P. Ordinance XII of 1959)
- Punjab Prohibition of Smoking in Cinema Houses Ordinance, 1960 (W.P. Ordinance IV of 1960)
- Eye Surgery (Restriction) Ordinance, 1960
- Punjab Pure Food Ordinance, 1960 (W.P Ordinance VII of 1960)
- Allopathic System (prevention of misuse) Ordinance, 1962
- Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Ordinance, 1962
- Unani, Ayurveda and Homoeopathic Practitioners Act, 1965
- Pharmacy Act, 1967
- The Pakistan Nursing Council Act, 1973
- Drugs Act, 1976
- Medical & Dental Degree Ordinance, 1982
- Punjab Health Foundation Act, 1992
- Punjab Transfusion of Safe Blood Ordinance, 1999
- Mental Health Ordinance for Pakistan, 2001
- Protection of Breast Feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance, 2002
- Prohibition of Smoking and Protection of Non-smokers Health Ordinance, 2002
- Punjab Medical and Health Institutions Act, 2003
- Injured Persons (Medical Aid Act), 2004
- King Edward Medical University, Lahore Act, 2005
- Human Organ Transplant Ordinance, 2007
- Pakistan College of Physicians and Surgeons Ordinance, 1962
- The University of Health Sciences Lahore Ordinance, 2002
Matters incidental and ancillary to the above subjects.