Fund thrust to increase birth,death registration

To increase both birth and death registration,the state Health Department has already sent a proposal of Rs 6.5 crore for increasing infrastructure and training staff in the state’s Project Implementation Plan (PIP) for the current year through National Rural Health Mission.

In the proposal,the state has also asked for recruiting at least 83 analyst-cum-data assistants on contract-basis in districts and state headquarters for carrying out birth and death registrations.

Meanwhile,the state Health Department has also scheduled training of at least two nodal officers for birth and death registration from each district between May 21 and 30,in five batches.

Once trained,these nodal officials will train birth and death registrars in their districts,including around 21,000 Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) and 9,000 gram panchayat vikas adhikaris for more than 52,000 registration units functional in rural areas of the state. For these trainings,approximately 1,000 training camps are expected to be held in the year in various districts.

“The trained officials will train registrars in urban areas which would include members of Nagar Panchayat,Nagar Nigams and cantonment boards. A nodal officer from each district hospital will also be trained,” said Dr A K Dhawan,Joint Director (birth and death registration),Health Directorate,UP.

Dr Dhawan added that through the trainings,the ANMs and other registrars will make people aware of the benefits of birth and death registration as the GoI is laying stress on associating birth and death certificates to essential services like issuing of any identity card among other things.