28 December 2014
DA call on Health Minister
Aaron Motsoaledi, to take emergency measures to speed-up the processing of
blood alcohol samples so that drunk driving offenders can be efficiently
prosecuted and justice served.
The DA said it is shocked to
receive the most recent figures from the Pretoria and Johannesburg Health
Department's forensic chemical laboratories.
DA Shadow Minister of Health Dr Wilmot James said
this is extraordinary, given that all of the FCL labs had increased staffing to
speed up the processing of samples, which only the Cape Town lab managed to do.
James said something is
therefore very wrong in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
James said to run a proper lab
at maximum efficiency requires brains, technology and systems.
James said Minister
Motsoaledi, who has till now remained silent on this issue, must take the
necessary actions to help solve the problem.
“Only he has the power and the
budget to fix the labs and he must do so now James added.
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