MISSION: To provide a service for the maintenance and enhancement of personal and community health, through the application of sound environmental health principles of disease prevention, health promotion and protection.

We are committed to the delivery of professional services and leadership on environmental matters through health promotion and education / enforcement of regulations and advice

Services We Provide

• Registration, inspection and licensing of food establishments and related businesses (restaurants, bakeries, snack bars, food vendors, supermarkets etc.)
• Conducting weekly training sessions in food safety and certification of food handlers
• Rodent and malaria evaluation
• OVI – trap Port health duties
• Investigation of complaints/ nuisance complaints re: food water, obnoxious odours, water and atmospheric pollution, mosquito and rodent infestation
• Review and recommendations for approvals regarding Building Plans, Sub-Division of Lands, waste-water and sewage treatment and disposal systems through plans referred by Town and Country Planning Department.
• Emptying septic tanks of liquid waste
• Collection and disposal of solid waste

Public Health Services Department

The Public Health Services Department of the Tobago House of Assembly delivers a host of environmental programmes to all citizens and visitors. The Department falls under the Division of Health and Social Services of the Tobago House of Assembly.

Our Department is structured into functional programme areas, namely Food Safety, Mosquito Pest and Vector Control, Approval of Building Plans and Layouts, Complaints Investigation and Waste Disposal. A wide range of services are provided throughout the Island.

Medical Transcription Unit

Medical Transcription is at the cutting edge of telecommunications technology, converting voice to electronic data, and transmitting that data back to a medical centre or an information warehouse and therefore accelerating the rate of healthcare delivery to clients.

In simpler terms, it is the act of translating from oral to written format (on paper or electronically) the record of a person’s medical history, prognosis, and outcome as dictated by a physician.

Medical Transcription may be carried out for any medical unit operating out of a hospital firm or small clinic. These transcribed records are used for the purposes of archiving, referring or serving as legal proof of medical advice.