Govt examining issue of suspected polio case in Meghalaya: CM

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaAugust 19, 2024

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday said he would review the matter related to the suspected polio case in Meghalaya before coming up with a proper statement as well as a plan of action.

“We are still examining the entire issue. It is of course a very serious situation of course we need to be very careful,” Sangma told reporters. 

“I will be taking a review on this in a couple of days and then I will be able to give you my respond to the entire situation and yes we have to be careful as we are determining many factors and we will see and come up with a proper statement as well as plan of action if we find that the specific information and intel is actually very serious as it has been made to be,” he added.

A two-year-old boy in a remote village in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district has been found with symptoms of poliomyelitis or polio, prompting health authorities to start an investigation.

The World Health Organisation had declared the state polio-free in 2014, and the last case was detected in 2011, they said.