The Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital is the first health center in the archipelago to communicate the birth registration, a pilot project launched by the Ministry of Justice that began this Thursday. With this, the hospital's Emergency Admission Service is authorized to carry out this work, so that parents and relatives will no longer have the need to travel to the Civil Registry to carry out the relevant procedures.
This health center has been chosen as the first in the Canary Islands to carry out this first phase of the project, which will be progressively implemented in all public and subsidized centers. "For the registration of newborns, health centers must send all documentation to the Civil Registry within 72 hours of birth and doctors will be responsible for identifying the baby and certifying their maternal filiation. The parents, together with the doctors who have assisted the birth, will sign the official declaration form to which the birth certificate will be incorporated", explain from the Ministry of Health.
This system, they point out, is protected under Law 19/2015, of July 13, on administrative reform measures in the field of the Administration of Justice and the Civil Registry, oriented in this case to electronic processing from health centers of births. "In this way, electronic medical certification is established for the purposes of registration in the Civil Registry, of births that occur in normal circumstances in health centers."
Tests and controls to guarantee the identification of babies
The Law affects the security of identification of newborns and the determination, without any doubt, of the relationship between the mother and the child, through the realization, where appropriate, of medical, biometric and analytical tests necessary; and on the other hand, controls are multiplied in the event of the death of those born in health centers after the first six months of gestation, requiring that the death certificate be signed by two doctors, who "must affirm under their responsibility that from the delivery and, where appropriate, from the tests carried out with the genetic material of the mother and the child, there are no doubts about the maternal-filial relationship".
These data, as regulated in Law 41/2002, of November 14, basic regulator of the autonomy of the patient and the rights and obligations regarding information and clinical documentation, will form part of the clinical history of the newborn, where they will be kept until their death and, once this has occurred, they will be transferred to the definitive archives of the corresponding administration, where they will be kept with the appropriate security measures.
Likewise, in the field of child protection, the non-obligation of the mother who renounces her child at the time of delivery to promote the birth registration is established, passing that obligation to the corresponding public entity, "without in such case the maternal address appears for statistical purposes, avoiding the consequent effect of automatic registration of the minor at the address of the mother who has renounced her child".
In addition to the Molina Orosa, the implementation of this system has begun in the Clínico de Valladolid hospitals, Complejo Hospitalario de Pontevedra, Gutiérrez Ortega de Valdepeñas, Hospital de Terrassa, Hospital de Álava, Juan Ramón Jiménez de Huelva, Hospital Comarcal de Melilla, Hospital de Mérida, Hospital Comarcal del Noroeste de Caravaca de la Cruz, Hospital de Inca, Hospital Central de Asturias, Doctor Peset de Valencia, Clínico Lozano Blesa de Zaragoza, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, San Pedro de Logroño, and in the Madrid hospitals of Alcorcón, Torrejón, Fuenlabrada, Puerta de Hierro and Infanta Leonor.
