ERHA launches bedside birth certificates

Par­ents giv­ing birth at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Cam­pus can now reg­is­ter their ba­bies and re­ceive their birth cer­tifi­cates be­fore leav­ing the hos­pi­tal.

The Bed­side Birth Reg­is­tra­tion Ser­vice was launched on Oc­to­ber 14, al­low­ing par­ents to com­plete the process at the hos­pi­tal rather than hav­ing to make a sep­a­rate trip to reg­is­ter their new­borns.

Ac­cord­ing to a post by the East­ern Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (ER­HA), the launch was led by Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein, who is al­so a Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries.

The ER­HA said the launch marked a mile­stone for the hos­pi­tal, with the first bed­side birth reg­is­tra­tion and print­ing of an elec­tron­ic birth cer­tifi­cate suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed at the cam­pus.

Al­so at­tend­ing were Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Health Dr Rishad Seecher­an, To­co/San­gre Grande MP Wayne Sturge, Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP Shiv­an­na Sam, Reg­is­trar Gen­er­al Karen Bridge­wa­ter, ER­HA chair­man Dr Sandeep Ma­haraj and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer An­geli­na Ram­per­sad Pierre, along with ER­HA staff and in­vit­ed guests.