There is a change of guard here in the district health set up. A noted child specialist Anil Kumar Srivastav has been made incharge civil surgeon of Palamu.
DC Palamau Shashi Ranjan said Srivastava who was already acting civil surgeon following John F Kennedy's going on leave outside the state and getting hospitalized in Patna, will now be incharge civil surgeon.
Sources said there is no word if and when Kennedy returns to Daltonganj fit and healthy then will there be a change of the baton?
In other important developments the Medinirai medical college hospital and medical college have been brought under the administrative control of the DC Palamu.
Sources said this measure of bringing the institutions under the administrative control of the DC is to plug gaps and to override day to day hiccups that come in the deliverance of health measures.
On Friday April 23 the nodal officer cum DDC Shekhar Jamuar on reaching the Medinirai medical college hospital in Daltonganj was red to see sagging electricity wires in the hospital for
which he ordered the outsourcer Balaji Detective Force Ranchi to get it right without fail.
Jamuar said dirt and filth in this hospital here casts all punitive eyes on the outsourcer which is taking hospital hygiene for a ride.