15 birth registration counters setup

Trained staff to be available on the birth registration counters in hospitals from 9am to 5pm

KARACHI:

Sindh Local Government Department set up birth registration counters in 15 more hospitals in Karachi and Hyderabad to further expand the ongoing birth registration project.

Additional Chief Secretary Local Government Syed Najam Ahmad Shah, in a statement issued on Thursday, informed that Sindh LG Department, in collaboration with United Nation Children Fund (Unicef), executed the project.

The trained staff would be available on the birth registration counters in all the hospitals from 9am to 5pm, he said, adding that facility of Polio and immunisation vaccination was also available at birth registration counters.

The new counters were established at Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad, Children Hospital Shadman, Zainab Panjwani Hospital, Darul Sahat, Batul General Hospital, Sindh Government Hospital Korangi 5, SESSI Hospital, Memon Goth Hospital, Lady Duffren hospital, Jinnah Hospital, Mominabad Hospital, Qatar Hospital Orangi Town and 50-bed Hospital Landhi in Karachi and Maji Hospital and St. Elizabeth Hospital in Hyderabad.

The birth certificate fee for children under five years of age is just Rs200, the registration fee for children between 5 to 10 years is Rs350, and the fee for children above 10 years is Rs500, he said.