Births at some private hospitals are not being registered, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon and government is looking to deal condignly with this unconstitutional practice.
“Cabinet took a hard line against management of private health care facilities that were withholding birth registrations that occurred in their facilities. The evidence was accumulating that confirmed registration of births was being denied at these health facilities. Cabinet vowed to eradicate the practice, keeping in mind that birth registration and access to birth certificates was indeed a constitutional right of those Guyanese,” he told reporters at a post cabinet press briefing yesterday.
According to Luncheon, the fact that this issue reached Cabinet for examination and pronouncement, “leads you to believe that it is a matter worthy of cabinet’s attention and it
