The Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development is a federal agency under the executive branch responsible for:
• Drafting and implementing national policy and legal regulation for:
- healthcare
- social development
- labour and consumer rights protection
- regular health checks to control the spread of infectious diseases and AIDS
- medical aid and medical rehabilitation
- the pharmaceutical industry, including quality control and the effectiveness and safety of medical products
- sanitation and epidemiological safety
- living standards and personal income
- demographic policy
- health services for professionals employed in hazardous industries
- medical-biological evaluation of the effects of physical and chemical hazards on the human body
- the spa and health resort services
- labour compensation
- pension benefits, including non-government pension funds
- social insurance
- labour conditions and safety
- social partnership and labour relations
- employment and unemployment
- labour migration
- alternative to military service
- government civil services (excluding labour compensation issues)
- social protection (especially for families, women, and children).

• Providing state services and managing state property in:
- healthcare and social development, medical aid (including high medical technologies such as human tissue and organ transplantation)
- development and implementation of new medical technology, new diagnostic and treatment methods
- the spa and health resort services
- forensic medical and psychiatric examination
- social services
- prosthetic and orthopaedic services
- rehabilitation services for people with disabilities
- medical and social examination
- professional training and retraining
- professional growth of individuals working in medicine, pharmaceuticals and sanitary-epidemiological services, social development and health resorts, and in the sphere of labour safety.