{"id":389518,"date":"2026-04-13T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:29:09","slug":"free-high-dose-ozempic-gets-green-light-for-medical-card-holders-with-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389518\/","title":{"rendered":"Free high-dose Ozempic gets green light for medical card holders with diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It will also be available free of charge to diabetics on the Long-Term Illness Scheme from next month\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Free Ozempic jabs have been approved for diabetic patients on certain medical schemes. Photo: Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/73de653d-0757-4981-9027-d5c6747d513c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Free Ozempic jabs have been approved for diabetic patients on certain medical schemes. Photo: Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">High-strength Ozempic will be available free to thousands of patients with diabetes who have a medical card or are on the Long-Term Illness Scheme, marking a major breakthrough in access to expensive new jabs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The HSE is understood to have told Novo Nordisk, makers of Ozempic, that the 2mg dosage can be prescribed for suitable patients with diabetes on both scheme from next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will also be available free of charge to diabetics on the Long-Term Illness Scheme from next month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[22473,2866,163,6151,85,46,482,1582],"class_list":{"0":"post-389518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-hse","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}