DoPT, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan highlighted the unfilled posts in the grades of additional secretary, joining secretary, director and deputy secretary under the Central Staffing Scheme and of the Central Secretariat Service (CSS).
Further, Bhushan added that even though the pandemic is declining, complacency can't be afforded at this stage. He said that the vacant position of one Joint Secretary and eight DS/Directors have put the union health ministry under acute stress. "It is, therefore, requested that an early and timely action may be taken to fill up the existing vacancies and also the vacancies arising in the coming weeks," Bhushan wrote on October 15.