The Medical Doctor (MD) is responsible for delivering high-quality clinical care and medical treatment to patients at the health facility level. This includes diagnosing illnesses, prescribing appropriate medications, managing both acute and chronic conditions, and ensuring that all medical interventions align with national treatment protocols and guidelines. The MD also plays a key leadership role by supervising and mentoring health staff, enhancing their clinical skills through on-the-job training and capacity-building sessions. Furthermore, the MD actively contributes to the planning, coordination, and implementation of health and nutrition activities, working closely with other team members to improve service delivery, patient outcomes, and community health
1. Responsible for overall basic health center management in the field, reporting, planning OPD sessions, drug distribution and leading other team members as per their job description.
2. Make sure that all planned primary health care as per BPHS, sexual reproductive services, trauma care and other project interventions are executed and expected services are delivered to all target population within the catchment area.
3. Maintain required quality of care in terms of providing healthcare services to patients (consultation, diagnosis, treatment, and referral), health education/conducting awareness raising sessions and reporting.
4. Make sure that basic health centers healthcare services are delivered according to current medical practices, national guidelines/treatment protocols and organization policies/procedures (with main focus to privacy, internal control/accountability, humanitarian principles etc.).
5. Responsible for technical support and monitoring of basic health centers staff/ members’ activities and make sure that healthcare services are delivered as per relevant guidelines, standards and protocols.
6. Responsible to make sure that project resources are properly utilized in the field, quality of service delivery and data entry is maintained by all team members and close working coordination is maintained with local communities/stakeholders/elders.
7. Responsible of regular updates and data entry of daily OPD/consultation in different HMIS/reporting tools/formats/registers according to MoPH/project needs and scope of work.
8. Active participation in BHC related community-based activities, awareness raising sessions, meetings, and lead BHC colleagues’ coordination with local health committees/CDCs and other forums.
9. Identify and report immediately any problems at community level that may interfere in achieving program objectives or need relevant management action.
10. Participate in designing and implementation of on-the-job trainings for mobile health team staff as per project work plan and staff need for knowledge and skills development within scope of BHC.
11. Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor/line manager.
Safeguarding Responsibilities:
Safety and Security Responsibility:
We all have a responsibility to promote a safe and secure work environment, foster a safety and security culture, and ensure consistent application of, and compliance with, CARE Afghanistan safety and security policies and procedures.