The Births and Deaths Registry in collaboration with UNICEF is conducting an emergency mobile mass registration exercise in some selected Districts in the Upper East Region.
This is part of the process to attain universal vital registration to aid government’s plan and develop socio-economic programmes with the use of a reliable and credible data.
The special registration exercise is targeting more than five thousands infants between zero to 12 months in five border communities or Districts in the Upper East Region that have the influx of displaced families and refugees.
These are Garu, Zebilla, Binduri, Pusiga and Tempani Districts. The exercise is expected to ensure that children born to these displaced families are properly identified.
The Head of Projects at the Births and Deaths Registry, Emmanuel Nortey Botchway is leading a team from the Births and Deaths Registry to visit the registration centres in these five Districts.
He told GBC News that every child born in the country has the right to be issued with a birth certificate.
Mr. Nortey Botchway also identified that there are many children born to migrants in these border communities who have not been captured onto the national data as required by law.
He said every child has the right to be legally registered and legitimately documented by government.
The District Chief Executive for Tempani, Issaka Anabida commended UNICEF and the Births and Deaths Registry for the collaboration to give these little ones identification numbers without their mothers travelling long distances.
The Garu District Coordinating Director, Alhassan Sulemana also pledged their readiness to support the registry to reach out to as many children as can register.