The procedure for issuing a medical death certificate is changed

The procedure for issuing medical certificates of death by medical institutions will be abolished, and it will be introduced only through the electronic system. The administrative regulations governing the provision of a comprehensive State service for the registration of deaths, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, stipulated this.
According to the regulations, an employee of a medical institution, upon confirmation of death, sends the information about the deceased to the Civil Registry Office via an automated information system.

The Civil Registry Office automatically registers the death certificate through the information system and sends the information electronically to the medical institution and the Pension Fund.
The medical officer immediately prints two copies of the death certificate with a QR code.
The Pension Fund Office-up to the 5th of each month, transfers to the Commercial Bank an amount of at least the total amount of funeral benefits paid in the area in the previous month.
The Commercial bank-confirms the sending of an electronic request to the Pension Fund on the basis of the death certificate with the QR-code, and the payment of the advance payment.
At any time, at the request of the next of kin or heirs of the deceased, the Civil Registry Office issues an extraterritorial death certificate or sends it by e-mail to the address indicated in the application.

According to the decree, from 1 April 2022 in Tashkent and from 1 July 2022 throughout the country, the procedure for issuing medical certificates of death by medical institutions will be abolished, and the system will be changed to implement an electronic system .