Health
The achievement of positive health among people is a vital component of community development. With rapid advances in the basic and applied biological sciences, a variety of tenable solutions to major health problems have been elucidated. However, even today, the benefits of modern medicine are available to a select few. Health care accessibility and affordability is subject to extreme imbalances, especially between urban and rural areas. There is a need to reorient medical education and service away from a top-heavy, clinic-intensive approach to one involving greater and continued application of epidemiology and public health principles for the masses. This necessitates a fresh outlook towards quality health services, preventive health programmes, and public health research. Such initiatives should focus on poor, excluded, and vulnerable groups, to strengthen their access to low cost health care. To deal with these challenges, the Trust draws upon its Health Strategy to focus its efforts in the following areas: