Child Spacing: Taraba celebrates 750,000 new subscribers
Child Spacing: Taraba celebrates 750,000 new subscribers
By Auwal Ilyasu
The Director in charge of The Challenge Initiative (TCI) in Taraba state, Dr. Sarki Othman, disclosed that the Child Spacing (CP) program in the state has recorded over 750,000 new subscribers in the last three years.
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Sarki stated this during a media roundtable meeting on sustaining and advancing the gains of CP in Jalingo.
He said, the success being celebrated was made possible by the various sensitization and enlightenment carried out during the period.
However, the Director noted that a lot more still needs to be done.
“Let me commend you, members of the press, for the good work you are doing in enlightening the people on the positive impact of CP.
“Through your joint efforts with other partners, we have recorded tremendous improvement in the number of new acceptors of CP in the state.
“As we all know, the services are basically free but most people were reluctant to access the services due to certain misconceptions and I am happy that this has been largely corrected,” Dr. Sarki said.
He added saying: “We hope to continue our advocacies to ensure reasonable budgetary allocations and disbursement to the cause.
“We encourage opinion leaders to continue the enlighten campaign so that the project will be sustained beyond the stay of the TCI and other partners in the state”.
Child Spacing: Taraba celebrates 750,000 new subscribers
