If no birth record, then no death record
I never knew you had to pay to register children at birth. (I do not have kids) But it should be free and done automatically by the hospital, in my opinion.Birth registration is a right some Ontario babies are being denied because their parents have to pay for it, a new report says.
About 200 newborns a year are unregistered and if they die, their deaths also go unrecorded, says the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, a pediatric group that falls under the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Ontario is the only province that allows municipalities to set a fee for registering a birth and the charge ranges from $25 to $35.
In Toronto, it costs $27.50 but that is set to rise to $35 on July 1.
Ontario's birth and neonatal death figures are so skewed that the perinatal surveillance group refuses to include them in their regular reports, said Dr. Arne Ohlsson, a member of the group and a staff neonatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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