{"id":111621,"date":"2025-08-26T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:03:09","slug":"revealed-counties-with-highest-number-of-patients-receiving-free-ozempic-jab-for-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/111621\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Counties with highest number of patients receiving free Ozempic jab for diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/video.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)\">Galway and north Dublin have the highest number of patients receiving  the Ozempic  jab for free to treat diabetes  <\/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)\">More than 35,000 people were prescribed Ozempic for free to treat diabetes last year, with north Dublin and Galway the areas with the highest number of recipients.<\/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)\">Ozempic is an injectable medication for type 2 diabetes that helps control blood sugar but it is also used by people who pay for it privately to aid weight loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway and north Dublin have the highest number of patients receiving the Ozempic jab for free to treat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[13615,26017,73014,97,51444,3730,243],"class_list":["post-111621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-department-of-health","tag-dublin","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-labour-party","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}