Develop Local Drugs To Fight Diabetes, Omo-Agege Urges Pharmacists

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has called on pharmacists in the country to intensify efforts at research that will lead to the development of local pharmaceutical drugs to replace imported ones in the fight against diabetes and other forms of endocrine and metabolic disorders. This, he emphasised, will not only boost the Nigerian economy by creating jobs for citizens but also save the country huge sums of money spent on importing foreign drugs. Omo-Agege stated this in Abuja at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Endocrine and…