Over €200m spent in less than three years at taxpayers’ expense
A woman taking an Ozempic injection. Photo: Getty
The HSE has spent more than €200m on Ozempic and similar weight-loss jabs in less than three years, with 80,000 patients getting the medication on free drugs schemes last year.
The number of people availing of the injections at taxpayers’ expense has increased by one-third since 2023, with the HSE spending an average of €580,000 every day on the jabs last year.