DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE BIRTH AND DEATH REGISTRATION SYSTEM

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

•  Background of the Study 

The ways computer application is embraced in every aspect of human life shows that every activity, organization cooperation, companies, hospitals etc need to be computerized. Hospital activities are not left out. The information revolution that has moved from the individual age to the information age is as a result of several developments in electronic and information. 

The high revolution of computer in every organization of business is availability of power at modest cost for the consumption which makes difference of their mode of operation. 

The introduction of microcomputer to information processing gives to all levels of managers, more power to retrieve and process information; it is not a difficult task to computer specialist. 

However, arrival of the desktop computer and ability to retrieve needed information from many driven source, promise a huge increase in productivity of decision makers. 

Furthermore, it is very necessary to survey continually the use of the newly discovered or developers especially to areas concern with registration of individuals. 

This fact points on the need to document every aspect of computer system. Attention should be turned towards reduced need to understand the technicalities, which the system developers bothered with in order to design and implement a new system. 

The activities of hospital which includes personnel record, drug inventory, disease inventory and birth statistics keeps on growing from time to time due to apparent population explosion. These areas can benefit from the information technology tool called computer. The control and management of the data call for data base management system (DBMS).

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojokwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) Awka, which is my case study, is located along Enugu Onitsha Expressway in Anambra State, Nigeria, it is one of the welfare home established in Anambra, it was formerly known as general hospital, Amaku, Awka Anambra State. The university Teaching Hospital Started in 2012 by former Governor Peter Obi. It was established as a teaching hospital to achieve the following:

1. 1. To promise quality medical services to all inhabitant of Anambra state and its envious

• To undertake the diagnosis and treatment of a board range of ailment etc the hospital has staff strength of over. 

It has the following department which includes: Administrative, Medical division which has internal medical pediatric obstetric, Gynecology and sergeant, Account, Micro laboratory, Cattery work, Central stores, Laundry, Nursing departments etc.

The hospital keeps the following record in this manner: hospital attendance. Number of admission in hospital beds or discharge/death. Delivery which include normal delivery and abnormal delivery, surgical operation. 

Postnatal 

The medical college also serves a string base for graduates, in order to acquire the much needed experience in the medical profession; the hospital has a lot of facilities that include:

1. X-ray
2. Ultras 
3. Discharge death 
4. Medical laboratory 
5. Surgery 
6. Mortuary 

•   Statement of Problem 

The Baby Care Unit (BCU) is incharge of babies born in the hospital and keeps record of births in the hospital. This documentation has created problem in filling unit of the hospital. The problems that have been created through the documentation of file include:

Mostly, it occupies some rooms which should have been useful for other important thing in the hospital. 

Considering the fact that the activities of the organization is operated manually, it become necessary to date the problem encountered in carrying out their daily duty, saves detail at the baby care unit which produces useful information needed by the management in the birth and death rate of the babies in the hospital. It becomes frustrating when this information is not accurate and it makes the system to encounter the problem of having so much file work. 

This hinders any updating that may be necessary in the birth and death rate record. The amount of paper document has increased to the extent resulting in difficult in referencing by the research doctors of that particular hospital. The problem of access could be improved by the use of computer database management system.

• The Purpose of the Study

The purpose of the study is to enable the staffs of COOUTH to keep accurate record on the death and birth rate statistics. The specific objectives includes;

1. Create database for birth and death information
2. Design an online application to ease the access to records
3. Issue Birth and Death Certificate online and save the stress of acquiring such certificate by the family of the individual.
4. Make it easy for any vaccination side to view how much baby need certain vaccination in the coming month or year.

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