Reniec: registration of a deceased person will be carried out in person and free of charge

Registration of a deceased person in death registration This will be in person and free of charge at the National Identity and Civil Status Registry (Renik) presenting only the death certificate, which must be signed by the doctor who pronounced the death. so indicated Juan Carlos Castrodirector of the Reniec Registration Service.

“If a citizen applies for death registration to an authority Renik – who are either in hospitals or in various health centers at the national level or in municipalities – must bring a death certificate issued by a doctor, which must contain a stamp, a doctor’s signature and a fingerprint. Subsequently, the civil registry office will verify these requirements, as well as those of the declarant, and proceed with the discretion and issuance of a death certificate,” Castro said.

Director Reniec Registration Services reported that the person responsible for the death procedure could be a close or distant relative, friend, or even the funeral home itself, which should contact the Reniec agency.

They can be found in the municipality, hospitals or in various institutions with a death certificate that is delivered to the hospital to regulate the legal status of the deceased, where the person’s DNI will be canceled and so that it will be valid in the next documents that they are going to carry out for personal purposes.

Renets: “We will not issue death certificates”

Renjek’s boss, Carmen Velarde, cited records that listed the national prosecutor as dead. Patricia Benavidez, and the owner of the Sarratea house, Alejandro Sanchez, and announced that from this Friday, death certificates will no longer be issued ex officio via the Internet. The official explained that now the relatives will have to do it manually in order to better control the records.

We very much regret this decision, and I apologize to the citizens, because usually between 12,000 and 15,000 people die and they did not have to come to this pain of losing a loved one. Renik because they knew the record was made ex officio. But, unfortunately, legal certainty in the difficult times that the country is going through deserves to be given this priority today,” he said at a press conference.

Criticism of the former head of Sinadef

AT Rotary Air, Javier Vargas He explained that the civil registration and vital statistics system was supported by three institutions: Minsa, Renjek and the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) with specific functions.

“The important thing is that the consequences of the announcement of the closure National Death Information System stating death (…) will definitely cause very serious problems. This can never be a solution, I can’t shut down the system because I have a computer security problem. If I had a problem with computer security, I would have to face it and put in reinforcements, install more powerful locks and make sure that the identity of whoever uses this system is actually the person authorized to do so,” he said.

Therefore, Javier Vargas considered that the closure Synadef This means that vital statistics will be affected, coverage of deaths and quality of information will be reduced, and cases will be falsified.