Last week, the first part of this article was published. This is the second and concluding part.
The point of this article is not to discredit the importance of the national e-ID card because truly it offers immense opportunities for our everyday life and for government. For example, in a medical emergency, a patient’s health records can be quickly obtained at the swipe of the card and valuable time saved where the doctors would still have to collect blood samples and other body fluids to do numerous tests which may take days to conclude – a major problem where the balance between life and death usually hangs on a thread that is only a few minutes thin and short.
The insurance system and the justice system often go through a slow and laborious process in concluding what would ordinarily have been purely a routine matter where the details of the DNA of individuals are involved.
Now, with the e-ID card, widows and bereaved families can more readily take possession of their legitimate inheritance where it would have taken donkey years of expensive litigations to conclude; and insurance claims can be more easily settled at the swipe of the card which helps to ascertain the DNA of claimants. — Continue Reading
