​Central

All the healthcare facilities, except for military hospitals and primary healthcare units of the penitentiary system, operate as legal entities of private law and are regulated by the Georgian Law on Entrepreneurship. Central Government

Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs

• Defining the public health policy, norms and standards and monitoring public health
• Development of the State Programmes for primary and speciailised medical services
• Implementing policy for non-contagious disease, biosafety, children’s and youth healthcare; preventative services and treatment for substance abuse;
• Monitoring and control of the implementation of the sanitary and epidemic activities 

 Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia

• Food and water safety and environmental health issues

Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources

• Monitoring of soil contamination,
• Water resource management
• Air, noise, nuclear and radiation licencing and monitoring.

Ministry of Education and Science

• Defining of sanitary and hygienic norms for the educational, educational-day care and day care facilities. 

 Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Internal Affairs of

• Hygienic and sanitary norms in the Armed Forces of Georgia and Military Units

Ministry of Justice

• Sanitary norms in the penitentiary detention facilities.

Responsible authorities/bodies

• Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia
• Ministry of Defence and
• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Ministry of Education and Science
• Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources
• Ministry of Justice
• Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs

Local

Local governments do not directly participate in the administration and have no regulatory power over the health sector however they have significant delegated responsibilities in environmental health including

Implementing preventative health care programmes in their territory;

Performing preventive measures against communicable diseases;

• Control of adherence to the hygiene and sanitary norms in
• educational, day-care- educational and day-care facilities; and
• public facilities on the territory of municipality.
• Receiving, storage and distribution to the healthcare providers of the materials provided by the Ministry for immunologic prophylaxis
• Implementing the preventive and epidemiological control measures in case of epidemic threat[1]

 [1] Art 36 Law of Public Health

Responsible authorities/bodies

• Municipalities
   

Sources

• Institute of Social Studies and Analysis, 2011, Social Protection and social assistance in Georgia, Prepared for the European Commission
• Law of Georgia on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors, and Narcological Assistance
• Law on Health Care Consolidated version 2015
• Local Self Government Code:
• Rukhadze T. 2013. An overview of the health care system in Georgia: expert recommendations in the context of predictive, preventive and personalised medicine. The EPMA Journal. 2013;4(1):8.
• EMCDDA, 2015, Country overview: Georgia:
• Ministry of Education and Science
• The Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia is responsible for certain aspects of food and water safety and environmental health issues
• Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources
• Ministry of Education and Science
• Ministry of Defence
• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Ministry of Justice
• Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara
• Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
• Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs