Mahayuti parties set up their own med cells

After chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his two deputies set up separate entities to monitor key infrastructure projects, the three leaders have begun running their own medical assistance cells as well.

- HT Correspondent

MUMBAI: The government's official medical assistance wing is run in the CM's name, while deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde is setting up his own medical aid wing in his office on the seventh floor of Mantralaya. Ajit Pawar's office, meanwhile, has rolled out its own mechanism to help poor patients in the state.

Days after taking over as Maharashtra's CM, Fadnavis shifted his medical aid cell, which he operated from the fifth floor of Mantralaya when he was deputy chief minister, to the seventh floor. Eknath Shinde's medical help cell in his role as CM was also taken over by Fadnavis, who merged both cells and replaced the Shinde cell head, Mangesh Chivate, with Rameshwar Naik. Two months after the development, the Shinde Sena has announced the opening of its own medical assistance cell to be headed by Chivate. It will be operational from March 2.