According to Keir Starmer’s Labor government, obesity costs the public purse £11 billion a year, more than tobacco. “It’s really important for the economy that people can get back to work,” Starmer said.
He United Kingdom It is proposed to give the green light to public health to administer a drug to fall off to the unemployed and overweight so that they can re-enter the labor market, something that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sees as ‘beneficial for the economy’.
“I think this drug can be very important for our economy and for health. This drug will be very useful for people who want to lose weight, need to lose weight, It is very important for the economyso people can get back to work,” Starmer told the BBC.
Due to the high cost, these types of injections are only prescribed by public health to obese people with health problems and also to people who have diabetes, but with the new plan, the government plans to extend it to more people who suffer from that problem for free . However, the Prime Minister has insisted on the need to reduce pressure on the National Healthcare System (NHS), insisting that if it is launched it will have to be staggered as high demand is expected.
The proposal was put forward by British Health Secretary Wes Streeting in an article published in the newspaper The Telegraph.
“Our widening ties also place a significant burden on our healthcare system, which comes at a significant cost £11 billion (13,090 million euros) per year, even more than smoking,” he argued.
According to Streeting, diseases caused by obesity cause people to take four more sick days per yearwhile many others are forced out of work.
Coincidentally, the pharmaceutical company Lilly conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of its drug Mounjaro and “its contribution to reducing unemployment.” According to the analysis, people who injected this drug lost 21% of their body weight over a period of 36 weeks.
Source: EITB
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