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SAMUT PRAKAN, THAILAND— This weekgovernment ministers from Southeast Asia aremeeting in Bangkok to discuss how to improveofficial registrations of births, deaths andmarriages - critical measures for providinggovernment services.
Thailand has had notable success but issues remain, especially with birth registrationsfor children of migrant workers.
Just hours after coming into the world, baby Edar is among the lucky ones. Her registrationprocess has already commenced - something that will prove vital for her chances to rise abovea subsistence existence.
Edar's mother, a 30-year-old from Myanmar who has been working in Thailand for seven years,says she is aware of how critical the documentation will be for her second child.
“Without a birth certificate, my child will not be able to go to school," she says, "previouslyschools would enroll children who didn't have birth certificates. So everyone nowshould get the certificates for their babies."
Less than enthusiastic
Some officials remain less than enthusiastic about certifying non-Thai births, although thekingdom's law mandates that all newborns, within 15 days, must be registered and given anational identification number.
“The message that we always emphasize is that birth registration is the right for every childwhether they are Thai or non-Thai and that the hospital should do everything to help theparents," explaines Napat Phisanbut, UNICEF Thailand. "Especially those who don't speak Thaiand might not know the process to understand what is the importance of birth registrationand the process that they need to do.”
However, about one-third of the births in this country by mothers from Myanmar, Laos andCambodia are still not being processed. Sometimes this is due to discrimination; in othercases officials are neglectful or corrupt.
The Samut Prakan Hospital's maternity ward has become a magnet for migrant workers due toits reputation for welcoming non-Thai expectant mothers.
Each month it delivers 150 babies who will not get Thai citizenship, but the government-runhospital ensures all are properly registered.
“We have an online birth registration system to speed up the process between our hospital andthe municipal government office, so the correct information can be processed quickly," saysSripapi Khlaidon, a hospital health officer. "This means no one has to go back and forthbetween the hospital and the government center.”
Registration rates
While Thailand - where 95 percent of births occur in a hospital - is held up as a model case,some other Asian countries are faring relatively poorly for birth registrations.
In light of that, delegates to this week's regional conference are to commit to universalregistration by the year 2024.
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