The day he left a hospital after two weeks of treatment for reported heart problems, President Boris Yeltsin fired its director.
Yeltsin signed a decree Monday firing Dr. Anatoly Martynov, general director of the presidential administration's medical center, the president's spokesman, Sergei Sidorov, confirmed Thursday.Martynov has long been criticized for poor job performance, the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said Thursday. He was replaced by Dr. Sergei Mironov, a well-known orthopedist who has treated athletes, circus performers and ballet dancers.
Mironov told the newspaper that his appointment had been planned for some time and it was just chance the decree was signed on the day Yeltsin left the Central Clinical Hospital, a part of the medical center.
Yeltsin spent nearly two weeks in the hospital after he was admitted July 11 with what his aides described as acute chest pains related to his heart disease.