The fight against drugs may not be voluntary much longer. The National Anti-Doping Commission (NADC) needs staff, having approached Government to hire at least two full-time paid employees to meet the tenets of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) new corrective action plan by January.
NADC chairman Dr Adrian Lorde broke the news after recently updating Minister of Sports John King on WADA’s stipulations.
“It’s not that we aren’t compliant with WADA because we follow the guidelines as it pertains to our testing process but they have been auditing all of the anti-doping organisations with some corrective actions so they have made recommendations that we have to meet by various deadlines,” explained Lorde.
“It’s more administrative stuff. So they want us to start blood testing by January. They want us to release positive tests to the public within 14 days. They want us to make an annual report to them and upgrade our website but these things really can’t be done without a single full-time member of staff,” he said. (JM)
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