mohsw.gov.lr Apply For Death Certificate Liberia : Ministry of Health & Social Welfare

Organization : Ministry of Health & Social Welfare
Type of Facility : Apply For Death Certificate
Country: Liberia

Website : http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/content_display.php?submenu_id=71&sub=submenu
Download Form : https://www.statusin.org/uploads/7349-Death%20form.pdf

Apply For Death Certificate:

Requirement To Obtain Death Certificate:
Death In Health Facility:
1. Original Copy Of The Medical Cause Of Death

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2. One Passport Size Photo Of Informant/Relative
3. Come For Interview

Death Outside Health Facility:
1. Provide Any Document/Record Of The Deceased
2. One Passport Size Photo Of Informant/Relative
3. Come For Interview
4. Approval Of Interview, Before Affidavit Of Death (Criminal Court B)

0 – 12 Years : Free
13 & Above: $500 Ld

Death Registration:
As for death and cause of death registration, the Liberian Public Health Law of 1976 mandated the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to register all deaths within 24 hours after their occurrence. However, this law has not been implemented to its fullest by the Ministry, due tolimited access to, or coverage of, death registration services as well as limited information on the importance and need for death certificates.

As a result of inadequate access, the coverage of registration has always been low. Apart from the mentioned plausible reasons for low registration of deaths, traditional and religious practices contribute to low registration in Liberia.

Death certificates are usually processed in Liberia with the intent to obtain insurance benefits, to settle inheritance issues and not as a requirement for burial and documentation of cause of death.

Birth Registration :
Birth registration became legal through “Birth and Death Registration Act” of 1971, which made compulsory the registration of births and deaths in the Republic of Liberia. Chapter 51 (§51.25), Subchapter B of the 1976 Public Health Law (PHL) states that “The birth of each child born alive in the Republic shall be registered within fourteen days after the date of birth by filing with the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a report of such births, which report shall be upon the form prescribed therefore by the Principal Registrar”.

Due to the damage done to the system and structures for birth registration, the activity became centralized during the 90s and for some time following the war. In addition, birth certificates were manually produced until 1999, when birth certificate production was contracted out to a private firm, the Monrovia Development Management Company (MDMC) for 10 years (1999 – 2009) and a computerized system was thereafter introduced.

During this period, the cost of birth certificate was US$20.00 for all ages, until 2004 when certificates for Under-5s became free and those for persons aged 5 years and above were L$800.00.

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** Deliver and Coordinate the Delivery of Decentralized Medical Care in Public Facilities.
** Develop Health Manpower.
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