The leadership of the Women and Children Health Empowerment Foundation has disclosed that it treaded extra legitimate miles to facilitate the integration of the testing and management of viral hepatitis B and C into the just adapted Task Sharing /Task Shifting in Taraba state.
The reasons which was disclosed in Jalingo, the state capital, was said to be geared at ensuring quality and essential health care services across the state and the country. The Project Director, Ibrahim Malik, who made this known said the integration was made possible following the support from development Research and Project Center, through the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health.
Viral hepatitis, which according to Malik remains a disease of public health concern, has continued to be on the increase especially in the state, hence the need for collective decision to integrate it in the said policy for essential health care services across the nooks and crannies of the state.