Environmental Health draws its mandate from the Lesotho Constitution 1993. Section 27(Protection of health) of the constitution indicates that Lesotho shall adopt policies aimed at ensuring the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health for its citizens, including policies designed to –  (a)  provide for the reduction of stillbirth rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child;  (b)  improve environmental and industrial hygiene;  (c)  provide for the prevention, treatment, and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases;  (d)  create conditions which would assure to all, medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness; and  (e)  improve public health.