-The Telegraph
New Delhi: The Union health ministry has asked its senior-most medical officer who oversees the implementation of the government’s myriad health and family welfare programmes to go on leave and asked the second-in-command to take his position.
In an order issued on Tuesday, the ministry asked Jagdish Prasad, the director-general of health services (DGHS), to "proceed on earned leave for 15 days… today afternoon" and assigned his charge to B.D. Athani, who until now was the special DGHS.
The ministry did not cite a reason for the order, which referred to another document – OM No C 14011/01/2015 Vig/CHS, also dated January 16, 2018.
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