The digitalization of the Consumers Registry will facilitate the various associated procedures.

When the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Office of Consumers Registry (OFICODA in Spanish) is celebrated, there is one more reason to celebrate, and that is that Las Tunas was ranked second nationally in a comprehensive assessment conducted, in which the process of digitization of the influenced to a large extent.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Adolfo Velázquez Concepción, director of the Empresa Nacional de Frigoríficos, presented the plaque of Outstanding to the Provincial Directorate of State Commerce for its performance in the incorporation of the registers of newborns and the elimination of those who have emigrated.

This digitization process, which has contributed so much to national recognition, is carried out by implementing a computerized system that aims to facilitate the procedures for consumers, and which, in addition, allows the daily additions and removals from the Register to be archived.

"In it, you can run the movements in and out of the locality, which allows us in real-time to give the discharges of leaving the country, as long as the listings arrive by the single tab that we provide from Emigration and Aliens.

"This digitization will ensure agility in all the procedures that are done in Oficoda, allowing the population to get out of these cumbersome processes more quickly and we can meet their needs," Ariel Rosales Sánchez, head of the Consumer Registry in the province, explained to 26.

Many advantages this transformation brings for the 205,697 nuclei of the territory, 497,442 consumers; 99.52 percent of them already in the System, according to Rosales Sánchez.

Marilín Jomarrón Miranda, in charge of the State Directorate of Commerce here, explained that the newborns are being incorporated daily; they constitute that minimum percentage that remains 100 percent.

At the moment, the territory is updating the database, which is what will make it possible to carry out all the movements or procedures in the future in an easier way.

The support between institutions has characterized the digitization of the Consumer Registry. The contribution of the Government, the Youth Clubs, the University of Las Tunas, and the 30 offices that make up the State Directorate, with its 118 workers, have made possible the accomplishment of this task.