Odisha: State health secretary transferred amid COVID 19 pandemic
Bhubaneswar - The Odisha government has shifted Health and Family Welfare Secretary N B Dhal in the middle of the state's fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Dhal, a 1993-batch IAS officer, was transferred and posted as the principal secretary in the energy department, according to a government notification.
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Removal of Dhal midway of the war against coronavirus has raised many eyebrows as the state government''s COVID-19 spokesperson Subroto Bagchi in March had highly praised the officer for joining the duty within 24 hours of his father''s death.
Dhal had lost his octogenarian father in the second week of March, when the state had reported just one case of infection.
Though Dhal rushed to his native village in Jajpur district, he returned to the job within some hours and looked after the COVID-19 management, earning praise from all quarters for commitment towards the duty.
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