Overview

• Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said facilities are not yet equipped for complex addiction care and pledged dedicated centres in Shillong and Tura.
• An interdepartmental committee drawing from Health, Social Welfare and Education has been set up to define immediate steps.
• The government is weighing the redesignation of underutilised community health centres to function as drug treatment sites.
• Authorities are gathering medical details after a 15-year-old was reportedly injected by two masked individuals near Jaiaw Presbyterian Church by Dinam Hall.
• NPWF representatives visited the victim at Robert Hospital as the state aligns its response with the DREAM policy and cites a new all-women rehab as recent progress.