Kufre gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja to commemorate the World Mental Health Day.
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At least 826,000 Nigerians are severely affected by heavy flooding after the banks of the country’s two main rivers – Niger and Benue – bursted following heavy rain, which began falling in August.
Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, said in a statement by the organization, that the leaders also agreed to provide 30 million people with preventive treatment to protect them from developing TB.
According to WHO, countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis by 2030 in spite of global efforts that averted about 54 million TB deaths since 2000.
TB is one of the top 10 causes of death globally and killed an estimated 1.6 million people worldwide in 2017, according to the UN’s health agency.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, gave the assurance on Tuesday in Lagos at the “National Public/Private Mix Summit for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria,’’ where a GeneXpert Machine was donated to El-Lab Ltd.
As of Thursday, the case count had reached more than 100, with 103 confirmed cases including 63 deaths, according to Dr. Peter Salama, deputy director general of emergency preparedness and response at the WHO.
Chairmen of the 25 local government areas in Niger State have reneged on the World Health Organisation, WHO, agreement reached on the remittance of 15 per cent of their allocation to improve health services across the state.
WHO says that for individuals with severe depression, it was common to think about suicide and they need support and encouragement from people around them to enable them heal at that moment.
Atiku made this known Saturday in Yola while updating newsmen on the epidemic.
The coordinator of the Clinic Against Tobacco and Other Addictive Substances at the General Hospital of Mexico said this in an interview with Xinhua.
The Head of Emergency Operation Centre and Director Public Health in the ministry, Dr Bwalki Dilli, made this known to newsmen in Yola on Tuesday.
One of the deaths occurred in the provincial capital of Mbandaka, according to a daily bulletin.
The WHO is sending over 7,540 doses of Ebola vaccine to Congo, 540 of which have been earmarked for Mbandaka where four Ebola cases have been confirmed.
According to Dr Paul Brennan, a genetic epidemiology expert with the International Agency for Research on Cancer, obese people are also likely to smoke more than average.
It is the ninth time Ebola has been recorded in the central African nation, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly virus its name when it was discovered there in the 1970s, and comes less than a year after its last outbreak which killed eight people.
According to a WHO report, ambient or outdoor air pollution alone caused some 4.2 million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies caused an estimated 3.8 million deaths in the same period.
Dr Lawrence Ohammah, the WHO’s National Surveillance officer in FCT, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria shortly after training of some DSNOs in Abuja on Thursday.
The Media Office of the Wife of the President of the Senate in a statement in Abuja said the appointment was made earlier this month by WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, “in a move intended to bring Mrs. Saraki’s considerable frontline experience to bear on WHO’s strategy and policy”.
The statement said: “For the Lassa fever response, 271 are involved in active case search, 235 in contact tracing and 320 in community sensitisation activities in the 18 states active states.”