DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE BIRTH AND DEATH REGISTRATION SYSTEM (Case study of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital)

ABSTRACT
The activities of hospital which includes personal records drugs inventory, disease inventory and birth and death statistics keeps on growing from time to time due to apparent population explosion. The control and management of the data call for data base management system (DBMS), which handle structured data that will store manual or card index or cabinet containing file. The main objective of this study is to create database for birth and death information, design an online application to ease the access to records, issue Birth and Death Certificate online and save the stress of acquiring such certificate by the family of the individual. The software application of computer based management system to help improve the manual operation in the day to day activities of Doctors and Nurses. The new system was designed using Microsoft ASP.NET, PHP, MySQL and HTML programming language. This language was chosen because of its wealth of class libraries and features for developing online based applications. In conclusion, the online death and birth rate statistics in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital and putting into considering the following management system, the result of the benefit are; flexibility, simplicity authorized users are granted access to global view of data within the establishment. Based on findings got and analyzed, the following recommendation is suggested, adequate trainer of the operation of the user is necessary to boast the efficiency of the business with respect to the system.

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:
i. To promise quality medical services to all inhabitant of Anambra state and its envious
ii. 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.