Mindanaotoday.com | PSA-10: Deaths went up in Oro last year
By: Uriel Quilinguing
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Confirmed deaths of 1,038 surpassed live births of 985 in Cagayan de Oro for August last year and was highest in a month-to-month count, the state’s statistics agency reported.
For 2021, the Philippine Statistics Authority-10 recorded 6,308 deaths for the regional capital, or a monthly average of 525 or 18 deaths in a day.
PSA-10, in its official Facebook account, reported there were 40,666 persons who died in Northern Mindanao last year.
At the height of the pandemic, City Civil Registry Office (CCRO) head Evangeline Tapangan released a diagram in the processing death registration in Cagayan de Oro.
The CCRO processing flow starts with an informant who must be a nearest kin of the dead or any person who has knowledge of death.
It states that natural deaths could either occur in hospital or at home, or somewhere else for non-natural causes such as accidents, disasters, and armed conflicts.
A certification from the village (barangay) chief is required for “home deaths” while police (blotter) report for “non-natural deaths.”
For these, the City Health Office (CHO) issues the death certificate and must be signed by a city health doctor.
In the case of “hospital deaths,” the death certificate is issued by the hospital.
Upon the submission of death certificate, village certification, and police (blotter) report, the CHO would issue transfer permit for cadavers to be interned outside the city and a cremation permit upon a letter of intent.
An embalmer’s signature must be affixed at the back portion of the death certificate while Municipal Form 103 is required for Islam believers for submission to the CCRO.
With this flow complied, the CCRO then issues a burial permit, after payments are made for burial permit and cemetery fee.
Meanwhile, the CCRO posted a week ago a statistical graph of 11,988 births in this year’s first eight months.
The eight-month trend resulted to a monthly average of 1,498 births which was way above the 979 monthly average the PSA-10 recorded in 2021.
Tapangan’s report also showed that seven out of 10 child deliveries (8,002 of 11,998) were by physicians, 2,331 by midwives, 1,436 by traditional attendant (hilot), 102 by nurses, and 117 others where attendant was not indicated. Of the 11,988 births, 51 percent (6,128) are males and 49 percent (5,860) females. (MT)
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