Komatipoort baby finally registered
2012-12-19 14:41
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Mbombela - Following several critical media reports, the
home affairs department has finally registered the birth of a premature baby
born only seven months after his brother.
The parents of 3-month-old Abraham Jacobus (Jaco) Smith had
battled for months to get the department to issue a birth certificate for their
child, Beeld reported on Wednesday.
Parents Braam Smith, 43, and his wife, Suzette, from
Komatipoort in Mpumalanga, were told by a government official at the mobile
home affairs office at the hospital that they could not register their son. The
system did not make provision for more than one baby per year to be registered
to the same set of parents.
A day after media reports on the matter appeared last week,
a home affairs official contacted Braam Smith and told him he could collect his
child's birth certificate.
Smith said it was a huge relief to have completed his son's
registration in time to meet the 90-day deadline for submission of the birth
certificate to his medical aid, failing which he would have had to cover the R1m
neonatal ICU bill himself.
- SAPA
