The Central Electoral Junta announced it is moving ahead with a project to enforce birth registration at civil registry posts set up in major public hospitals and will open more of these offices. The goal is for all children to be registered at birth. This would avoid a myriad of problems and bureaucratic difficulties that parents face when they try to register their children after the 30 day registry period expires. It will also reduce the possibility of fraudulent issuing of birth certificates. The new agreement signed with the Ministry of Public Health establishes that mothers will not be released from the hospital until they have legally declared their new offspring. Many times mothers neglect to do this, anxious to leave the hospital.
