Following the official finish of his tenure as a well being officer with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on March 1, the State Public Health Department has directed Dr Ashish Bharati to stay current earlier than the deputy director, Health Service, Pune Region.

It is unclear who will succeed Dr Bharati as PMC well being chief.

In October 2020, he was appointed because the well being chief of the PMC changing Dr Ramchandra Hankare.

Before heading the PMC well being division, Dr Bharati was serving because the assistant director of the state well being division.

He was later granted one other 12 months’s extension from October 5, 2021, to October 4, 2022, in a brand new order dated February 8, 2022.

Dr Bharti led the PMC well being division in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic and was on the forefront of dealing with the tough scenario within the district.