CDPH’s acting Comm. Fikirte Wagaw answered questions Thursday. [Erin Hegarty/The Daily Line]

Chicago’s Department of Public Health is currently seeing a vacancy rate of 42 percent across the department, acting Comm. Fikirte Wagaw told alderpeople during a budget hearing Thursday. 

Several alderpeople raised concern about what they deemed a high vacancy rate in the Department of Public Health (CDPH).