… Experts add: Register them where they are bornBy Chioma Obinna
The first cry came, then the rush of hands. A newborn baby girl had just entered the world. While nurses attended to the mother and cleaned the baby, Emmanuel Joseph was already thinking beyond the excitement of fatherhood.
He wanted his daughter to exist not only in his family, but also in the records of the country.Within minutes of his wife’s delivery, Joseph walked out of the labour area in search of the nurse in charge.
“I asked if they had a desk where I could register the birth of my child,” he told Good health weekly.The nurse was surprised.
“She asked if I really had a name for my child because the child would not be registered if I did not have a name. I told her yes.”
