With the organization of the Philippine National Anti-Doping Organization, officials of the Philippine Sports Commission and Philippine Center for Sports Medicine are hopeful that the country will be able to establish its own anti-doping center soon. “The country can save in expenditures if we have our own anti-doping center. When the country hosted the 23rd Asian Games in 2005, we had go send some urine samples to China and the Philippines had to spend from $200 to $400 per sampling,” explains Dr. Alex Pineda, Head of Doping Control Unit.