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How Kenya's digital birth registration system will work

How Kenya's digital birth registration system will work

System to be integrated with public hospitals' system as well as private hospitals empanelled...

Principal Secretary for Immigration and Citizen Services Belio Kipsang.

The government is moving towards scrapping birth certificate fees as it introduces a digital registration system that will assign children unique personal identifiers (UPI) from birth.

Principal Secretary for Immigration and Citizen Services Belio Kipsang told MPs that the govrnment is finalising plans to waive all charges associated with the issuance of birth and death certificates in a Gazette notice that “will be published in due course”.

Hospitals are expected to immediately notify Civil Registration Services of births.

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