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01-13-2009, 05:20 PM
The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (SESPAS) has initiated via Resolution 0000018, a program to issue Certificates of Live Birth to all Dominicans and foreigners at public and private health centers all over the country.
Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez announced that this system produces the official document certifying that a live birth occurred in the Dominican Republic.
He added that the numbered certificate is the official form that includes the parents' identification data and details of the newborn as well as administrative data of the facility where the birth took place and these certificates are the basic document required for registering a birth at the Civil Registry Office.
Minister Rojas Gomez underlined the fact that in order to guarantee the availability of the forms for the Certificates of Live Birth in public and private hospitals, SESPAS has ordered the managers of the Provincial Health Departments' IT offices to make sure the forms were properly distributed.
Rojas Gomez said that Article 34 of the General Health Law authorized the institution to create a computerized National System of General Health Information that guarantees the analysis, design and implementation of databases distributed and decentralized for research purposes and management of the system.
The official program also makes reference to the fact that Law 659 on Certificates of the Civil State, dated 17 July 1944 establishes the need to present a certificate of birth or of live birth, issued by the doctor, clinic, hospital, midwife or rural magistrate in order to register a birth at a Civil Registry office.
Rojas Gomez said that the Declaration of Children's Rights by the United Nations General Assembly, Resolution 1386 of 20 November 1959 establishes that a child has the right to a name and a nationality, a right that is also guaranteed by the Dominican Constitution.
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Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez announced that this system produces the official document certifying that a live birth occurred in the Dominican Republic.
He added that the numbered certificate is the official form that includes the parents' identification data and details of the newborn as well as administrative data of the facility where the birth took place and these certificates are the basic document required for registering a birth at the Civil Registry Office.
Minister Rojas Gomez underlined the fact that in order to guarantee the availability of the forms for the Certificates of Live Birth in public and private hospitals, SESPAS has ordered the managers of the Provincial Health Departments' IT offices to make sure the forms were properly distributed.
Rojas Gomez said that Article 34 of the General Health Law authorized the institution to create a computerized National System of General Health Information that guarantees the analysis, design and implementation of databases distributed and decentralized for research purposes and management of the system.
The official program also makes reference to the fact that Law 659 on Certificates of the Civil State, dated 17 July 1944 establishes the need to present a certificate of birth or of live birth, issued by the doctor, clinic, hospital, midwife or rural magistrate in order to register a birth at a Civil Registry office.
Rojas Gomez said that the Declaration of Children's Rights by the United Nations General Assembly, Resolution 1386 of 20 November 1959 establishes that a child has the right to a name and a nationality, a right that is also guaranteed by the Dominican Constitution.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)