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Southeast Asia Regional Anti-Doping Organisation
NADO Updates

DCO Course in Laos

14 November 2019

Six Lao-NADO members completed their first DCO Course in Laos in November 2019, gaining skills to conduct doping control in the country.

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Group of ten people posing at a DCO Training Course for LAO NADO, Vientiane, November 2019 banner behind them.

On the 14 & 15 November 2019, a Doping Control Officer (DCO) Course was conducted for the first time in Laos for the newly formed Lao-NADO. Mr Thassana Trairat, SEARADO Trainer and Head Testing, Doping Control Authority of Thailand was the main course facilitator. He was assisted be Mr Takadai Saengsuwan from DCAT.

A total of 6 participants took part in the course and all of them did extremely well. Following the course, the participants had to do a OOCT which was supervised by the course facilitators.

Two men sit at a conference table reviewing documents, with a projected slide on urine sample collection visible behind them.
Four people sit at tables with papers during a Doping Control Officer training course for LAO NADO, Vientiane, November 2019.