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Bhushan will succeed Preeti Sudan, who was given a three-month extension in April and demits office on July 31
Senior bureaucrat Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed health secretary as part of a minor top-level bureaucratic reshuffle on Friday, according to a Personnel Ministry order.
He will succeed Preeti Sudan, who was given a three-month extension in April and demits office on July 31, it said.
Bhushan, a 1987 batch Bihar cadre IAS officer, is the Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Health and Family Welfare under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He was named OSD in April this year.
The Health Ministry is at the forefront of the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic.