Army Base Hospital Commandant posted out, sudden transfer raises eyebrows

In a sudden transfer, the Commandant of the Base Hospital Delhi cantonment, has been transferred as ‘Additional Officer’ to Army Hospital (Research and Referral), in Delhi itself.
The switch of Major General Vasu Vardhan has been ordered on May 10 by the Directorate General of Medical Services (Army). The posting orders accessed by The Indian Express state that Major General SK Singh, Deputy Commandant and Chief Instructor of Army Medical Corps Centre and College, Lucknow has been posted to the Base Hospital instead of Major General Vardhan.
The transfer has raised eyebrows throughout the Army circles as Major General Vardhan was purported to retire inside a number of months. Under regular situations officers who’re as a result of retire shortly are usually not posted out from their appointments.
An Army spokesperson, nevertheless, termed the switch as routine. “The current Commandant has completed a tenure of more than 18 months in his current appointment. It is a routine posting carried out as part of a larger plan of HR management within the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS),” the officer mentioned.
However, senior officers throughout the Army Medical Corps have confided that this switch is something however routine and that there’s extra to the episode than is being revealed. Incidentally, the bottom Hospital was on Wednesday visited by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Bipin Rawat who additionally visited the DRDO Covid facility arrange close to Palam.
Based Hospital Delhi Cantonment had been within the information a number of weeks again when a retired Brigadier affected by Covid signs was turned away as a result of lack of beds and he died whereas being taken to a hospital in Mohali, close to Chandigarh. There was outrage among the many veterans following this and a retired Lt General lately wrote a letter to the CDS complaining in regards to the Base Hospital and bringing to his discover the deaths of some retired officers alleging that the veterans and their dependents weren’t being taken care of adequately.
However, there have additionally been messages circulating on social media highlighting that Major General Vardhan lately misplaced his mom in one other metropolis to Covid however he continued to carry out his duties on the Base Hospital. There have been a number of messages in assist for the officer which have been tweeted by retired navy officers appreciating his dedication to work.
Former Northern and Central Army Commander, Lt Gen HS Panag (retd), tweeted, “More to it than meets the eye. If you cannot make the upright bend, then you get them out of the way.”