India Diabetes: Curbing the surge of diabetes in India needs collaborative effort: Novo Nordisk CEO

Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen, global CEO, Novo Nordisk; image credit: Company

Synopsis

Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, the CEO of Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest producer of insulins, shares his thoughts on how to arrest the growing numbers of diabetes patients; the company’s blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy; regulating medicine prices; and more.

For Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, CEO, Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest producer of insulins, India is a crucial market, amid the worrying uptrend in the reported number of cases of diabetics and pre-diabetics. Besides making medical treatment available and imparting training to nurses, he says, it is important that people in big cities change the way they live. From meals to giving up a sedentary lifestyle, everything needs to be reviewed

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