Maharashtra hospital deaths: The process of procuring medicines for state run hospitals must be decentralised and there is need to ensure the authority appointed to carry out this task does not work for anyone's "self interest," Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said on Monday, reported news agency PTI.

He was speaking to reporters after visiting the Government Medical College and Hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and interacting with the dean and other officials.