Transfer of Kerala's Director of Health Services kicks up a row

The swift and unexpected manner in which Kerala's Director of Health Services (DHS) K.J. Reena was transferred out by the government is snowballing into a debate over the propriety as well as the timing of the government action, especially since the State is battling various epidemics now.Dr. Reena, who was transferred as Director, Regional Public Health Laboratory, Ernakulam, a post that was “temporarily upgraded to the level equivalent to that of the DHS,” as per the government order (GO), to accommodate the DHS, said that the government move had come as a shocker.She added that if the government was not interested in keeping her on as the head of the State’s public health, she could have been given an honourable exit considering that she had put in 30 years of service with the Health…

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