Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health has health facilities that aim at delivering health care to the community classified as either hospitals, Health Centres or Health Posts.

Hospitals

The hospitals are divided into three categories namely; Level 1hospitals at District level also known as the primary level hospital, Level 2 hospitals at Provincial level also referred to as secondary hospitals and Level 3 hospitals also referred to tertiary hospitals at the central level.

The intensity of care also differs as the hospital level changes. The referral system also comes in as soon as these levels of care are adhered to.

Health Centres

These too are divided into either Urban Health Centres or Rural Health Centres. For Health Posts, the health sector aims at taking the most basic health care as close to the family as possible as stated in the Basic Health Care Package. The construction of these facilities targets a certain radius in given catchment population area.

For more details on falicities click on the following links to download the 'Zambia National Health Facility Atlas, while to download the 2008 Health Facilities list in Zambia click here and for the 2002 Health Facilities list in Zambia click here. You should have the Adobe Acrobat program to view this document.