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The contention implicit the abrupt transportation bid slapped connected Director of Health Services (DHS) K.J. Reena and the government’s unfastened standoff with the authoritative refuses to dice down, with the Principal Bench of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) successful Thiruvananthapuram issuing an interim enactment connected the transportation connected a petition filed by her.
The KAT connected Thursday stayed the GO (Government Order) removing and transferring the DHS to the Regional Public Health Laboratory successful Ernakulam, to beryllium posted arsenic the Director, “a station that was temporarily upgraded” to accommodate her.
The abrupt and abrupt mode of the transportation and the handing implicit of the afloat charges of the DHS to the Additional DHS (Family Welfare) had travel nether a cloud, particularly since the GO made the notation that the DHS had taken a permission of lack for 15 days during the epidemic period.
After Dr. Reena pointed retired that she had sought permission for conscionable two-and-a-half days and that the connection mentioned successful the GO was mendacious and baseless, the authorities issued a caller and modified GO, omitting the notation astir the leave.
Health Minister K. Muraleedharan was rather unfastened astir the hostilities that seemed to beryllium betwixt the DHS and the caller government. He maintained that the DHS was transferred arsenic she had completed 2 years’ tenure arsenic DHS and that the authorities had the liberty to look for a caller regular assignment to the post.
He besides added that Dr. Reena had not been cooperating with the authorities and that immoderate of her actions, allegedly done without consulting the government, were not acceptable. He besides accused the DHS of not informing him astir the Nipah laboratory confirmation, earlier helium spoke to the media.
Dr. Reena approached the tribunal, pointing retired the discrepancies successful the GO transferring her and stating retired that she had been forced into an ignominious exit by the government, that excessively by raising a baseless allegation against her.
She besides pointed retired that her transportation was successful usurpation of the rules governing the transportation of administrative cadre officials nether the Directorate of Health Services. She stated that arsenic the caput of nationalist wellness successful the State, her transportation bid should person been signed by the Additional Chief Secretary (Health) and not the Joint Secretary.
Mr. Muraleedharan, who spoke to mediapersons successful Thrissur, seemed unfazed astir the caller improvement and hinted that that the authorities had the enactment to attack higher courts.
