A city-based chartered accountant (CA) and his family faced significant hardship due to an unusual directive by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which restricted financial assistance for Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) treatment to specific areas. Despite directives from Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, PMC officials refused to extend aid because the patient did not reside in the designated affected zones.

The patient, a-64-year old Rajiv Karandikar, has already spent Rs 4 lakh on treatment at a private hospital over the past two weeks. When his friend Sanjay Kulkarni, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker, submitted the required documents to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) as instructed, the officials denied assistance.