Agencies to conduct DNA tests on stateless people
The Provincial Administration Department and the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) will join forces to carry out DNA tests on 200,000 stateless people, including 79,000 school-age youths, to prove their ethnicity and ensure their right to healt
CIFS director Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan and department director-general Krissada Boonrat yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding for DNA tests to support the department’s census registration.
Krissada expressed the hope that this co-operation would boost the speed and effectiveness of the nationality identification process. He said the Justice Ministry would cover the expense of the DNA tests, which cost about Bt10,000 per pair.
Porntip urged people wishing to apply for national identification to file a request with the CIFS or the Provincial Administration Department, which would screen the applicants before submitting the cases to the CIFS to carry out the free DNA testing.
