By Tiffanne RamphalSince the birth registration process has been now taken into the maternity ward, expecting mothers are being urged to have names for their babies in mind as well as other essential documents on hand to register the child, even before entering the labour room.This is due to the recent implementation of Bedside Birth Registration at the records management level of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), which aims at ensuring that no live birthA Records Department clerk conducting beside registration in the postnatal ward at the GPHC.conducted at the health facility goes unregistered.Bedside registering is also being adapted by the New Amsterdam (Region 6) and Suddie (Region 2) hospitals.As opposed to the previous registration process,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, and as the name suggests, bedside registration takes place in the post-natal maternity ward with clerks from the Medical Records Department filling up the newborn’s registration form at the patient’s ‘bedside’ before discharge.According to Nerica Bassoodeo, Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) Manager at the GPHC, since the former registration process was conducted following discharge of the patient, some parents would not return to register the birth or to complete registration if the process was started.“Some would wait until it’s necessary for the child to have a birth certificate… probably when they need to enroll for nursery school,” she informed.Statistics provided by the GPHC revealed that during a nine-month period prior to the implementation of the bedside registration process, only 69% of live deliveries occurring at the hospital were registered.The HMIS Manager stated that failure to register a child at birth not only impacts the child individually in later stages of life (as it relates to application for necessary documents such as passports) but is also detrimental to national planning, since registration information is essential in catering for effective disease surveillance and public education on a national level.“It assists governments in planning for social services such as education and health and is a basis for effective administration and good governance.”Since implementation, the records department, noting the need to have all babies who were delivered at the health facility registered, has been seeking all means by which to affiliate the public and expecting mothers about the new registrations process.Thus far, officials of the department have been holding talks aimed at educating mothers, from their prenatal stage, about the importance of bedside registration, so that when the time comes to have the process conducted, those mothers would be prepared.“We let them know that they need to select two names, a boy’s name and a girl’s name, to register for the birth. Also if they are legally married, they need to come with their marriage certificate and identification cards. In the case where the parents are legally married, the father does not need to be present to have his name inserted on the birth certificate. Some people feel that the father must be there,Air Max 97 Silver Womens,” Bassoodeo said.For common law relationships,China Jerseys Wholesale, however,Wholesale Jerseys 2018, she said that the father needs to be present along with the mother and has to present any form of picture identification.Bassoodeo admitted that even though the process is in its sixth month of implementation, most parents are not aware of the steps that are needed to be taken to have the birth of their child registered. She said that even with the wide circulation of posters, provided by the General Register Office in collaboration with UNICEF, to educate mothers on “what they need to walk with” to register the birth of the child, the process is completely new to some.As such, even though the department is doing its best to educate the new mothers, it has been difficult to win everyone over to the new process.“I guess it’s because with this generation the process is relatively new. And like any other culture that people are accustomed to, getting them to do things differently and to break away from what they are accustomed to doing is difficult,China Cheap Jerseys,” she opined.Highlighting some of the difficulties encountered, she said that a few mothers have been reluctant to have the registration done.“When the clerk calls on the mothers to register, some pretend they are not there, some leave conveniently and go to the washroom. Some say that they don’t have a name.”The undying commitment and patience of those in the Records Department is evident in dealing with these obstacles, since they have taken it upon themselves to compile “pink an