Issuance of Birth Certificates : Special Campaign To Foster Acquisition

 
The United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) and its national partners notably the National Civil Status Registration Office (BUNEC) and some Municipal Councils are evaluating progress made in the field within the context of ‘My Name’ campaign; an initiative that seeks to facilitate and encourage birth registrations. In the South West Region, UNICEF officials, BUNEC regional office in partnership with the Regional Delegation of Communication organised a press trip to some health facilities to encourage best practices as far as birth registration is concerned.
At the Mount Mary Hospital Buea, the Administrator, Sr Kenkuo Juliet Nange expressed the willingness to further the collaboration between her facility and civil status registry in order to facilitate the issuance of birth certificates for babies within the required time. The Head of the Maternity unit of the Mount Mary Hospital, Francisca Kiney indicated that her unit compiles birth attestations and transmit to the Buea Council’s civil status registry weekly. The parents are therefore enjoined to go to the Buea Council for eventual issuance of birth certificates.
At the Limbe I Council Civil Status Registration, Nga Ngono Doris Francine explained measures taken by the council to facilitate the issuance of birth certificates to newly born babies and even for those children already in school. She said within the framework of the ‘My Name’ ca...