Ministry of Health and Social Care does administrative and other tasks related to: protecting the population from infectious and non-infectious diseases, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; health validity of foods and objects in an everyday use; use of health care potentials; construction and investments in health care; setting up of health care institutions and private practice; organization of state and professional exams for health care personnel and their specialist training; recognition of primarius title; naming of health care institutions: referral centre, clinic, hospital clinic and hospital clinic centre; administrative supervision of functioning of Croatian Health Insurance Institute, Croatian Red Cross and chambers; health care inspection of functioning of health care institutions, health care employees and private practice; drugs registrations, pharmaceutical inspection of manufacturing and traffic of drugs and health products; sanitary inspection of manufacturing, traffic, use and disposition of poisons; manufacturing, traffic and use of narcotics;sanitary inspection of persons and activities, buildings, offices, spaces, facilities and equipment which can have any harmful effects on human health; sanitary inspection of international traffic at the state borders.

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Ministry of Health and Social Care