Health Ministry

According to Mr Mahe, the Health Directors were instructed to take temporary transfers as Medical Superintendents for six months.

The public servants have been transferred respectively to the Northern provincial Hospital in Luganville, Santo and Lenakel hospital in Tanna island.

The two concerned are Director of Public Health Department, Len Tarivonda, and Director of Corporate Services, Policy and Planning of the Ministry of Health (MOH), Dr. Posikai Samuel Tapo.

The police said the director general George Taleo crashed his government vehicle on Thursday night after he had been drinking.

The commission's chairman Martin Mahe told the Daily Post that Mr Taleo should not have been driving the government vehicle.

In a letter to the prime minister Charlot Salwai, Mr Mahe said Mr Taleo should be suspended while a misconduct investigation is carried out.

The prime minister is yet to make a decision.

Photo: RNZ / Kim Baker Wilson