The Ministry of Health (MoH) said it will shortly begin issuing adult birth and death certificates at the county service center in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County.
The exercise is the ministry bold step to effectuate the implementation of government’s decentralization plans.
The County Health Registrar, Emmanuel Kadee, made the disclosure over the weekend in Zwedru. Kadee said local authorities have made available an office space at the County Service Center for exclusive use for the issuance of birth certificates.
He said the trainers from the MoH in Monrovia are expected to conduct training in the county for staff.
He said the training will build the capacities of staff that will later perform major roles at the center.
Kadee said investigators, registrars, officers from the Liberia Immigration Service, will carry out the task.
During the training, Kadee said, applicants for birth certificates will submit their bio-data and basic information, which will be processed through the central office in Monrovia that would be ready in one week.
Kadee added that after the training, the processing of birth certificates will be done in a few hours at the county levels.
He meanwhile, called on the MoH to speedily initiate the training and subsequent issuance of birth and death certificates.
In a related development, James Kpangbai, Deputy Director for Passport and Decentralization at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, described the birth certificate as one criterion for obtaining a passport.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Passport Regional Hub in the southeast with offices in Grand Gedeh County and Gbarnga, Bong County, had officially resumed operations in early August.
Source: Paul G Rancy/ LINA Grand Gedeh County Correspondent