India, Feb. 17 -- 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. 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...