Make Diabetes Care More Accessible And Affordable, FG Told.

Byline: Sola Ogundipe

Even as the Changing Diabetes Care in Nigeria Summit opens in Lagos today at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, the Diabetes Association of Nigeria is joining voices with the African Diabetes Declaration and Strategies to call on the Federal Governemnt to establish policies that would make management and care of diabetes in the country more affordable and accessible.

In a statement issued ahead of the summit being put together by Novo Nordisk, the global leader in insulin manufacture, DAN president, Dr. Sonny Chinenye observed that Prevention means Intervention Now" to spare us the overwhelming costs of chronic care later."

He said it was …