Pubdate: Sun, 26 Jun 2005
Source: New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Copyright: 2005 NST Online
Contact:  http://www.nst.com.my/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3734

DPM: SCREEN ALL GOVT STAFF REGULARLY FOR DRUGS

The Deputy Prime Minister wants government departments to screen all staff
regularly for drugs.

Pos Malaysia Datuk Seri Najib Razak also urged department heads to keep a
look out for staff who show "disturbing" symptoms.

"Department heads must be alert and ask those who show such signs to undergo
a urine test," he said.

Najib's call comes in the wake of a recent discovery by the management of a
factory in Pahang that some 20 per cent of its staff tested positive for
drugs in spot checks.

"This should be a model for other factories," he said when opening Pemadam's
30th annual general meeting at the state secretariat here last night. 
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