The man in charge of pharmacology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus Dr Damian Cohall has suggested the proposed pharmaceutical industry for Barbados should be expanded into a health and wellness industry.While welcoming last Tuesday’s announcement by Prime Minister Mia Mottley that she struck a deal with the Rwandan government that would result in the creation of a pharmaceutical industry here, with a focus on cancer treatment medications, vaccines and drugs for women’s reproductive healthcare, Dr Cohall said the industry should embrace not just a curative approach but a preventive system with room for traditional herbal remedies.“Generally, when we speak about pharmaceuticals, we speak about medicines to cure disease, but I am hoping that Government would be somewhat flexible and be amenable to the idea of first looking at an expanded health and wellness industry and not just focusing on that [curative] medical paradigm, where we can actually have products that are prophylactic and prevention of disease as well,” the Director of the PhD Pharmacology programme and Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at UWI, Cave Hill Campus said during an interview with Barbados TODAY.