He is replaced by Dr Sanjay Kala, head of general surgery, GSVM Medical College (Kanpur) who will be the officiating principal of SNMC till further orders.

SNMCs chief medical superintendent SP Jain was removed and attached to DM Agras office.

Senior consultant from Moradabad, Dr BB Pushkar will take over as CMS at SN Medical College (Agra), which had been in the news for deaths of patients for want of treatment or carelessness in handling cases.

Meanwhile, the government removed Mathura chief medical officer Dr Sher Singh.

Agra has emerged as a major Covid-19 hotspot in recent weeks.

The team comprising Alok Kumar, principal secretary (industrial development); Rajneesh Dubey, principal secretary (medical education): Vijay Prakash, inspector-general; Dr Avinash Kumar Singh, officer on special duty and Prof Alok Nath head of department, pulmonary department, SGPGI.

To recall, Agra chief medical officer (CMO) Mukesh Kumar Vats and additional director (health) Dr AK Mittal were also removed from their posts in wake of rising Covid-19 cases in Agra.

The outgoing CMO was attached to the office of the district magistrate (Agra) and replaced by Dr RC Pandey.

Dr AK Mittal was attached to commissioner (Agra division) office while Dr Avinash Kumar Singh took over as new additional director (health), Agra.

BOX 13 fresh cases, Agras Covid tally 777 Agra With 13 fresh cases surfacing in Agra, the districts tally of Covid-19 positive cases went up to 777 on Wednesday.

District magistrate Prabhu N Singh said that 9,751 samples had been tested in Agra.

In all, 369 Covid-19 positive patients have been cured and discharged and the number of active cases is 383.

There are 44 live hotspots, after 16 areas lost the hotspot tag, he added.

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