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Health
John Besley

Crackdown urged by family of mum who died after receiving illegal ‘skinny jab’

Semaglutide (GLP-1) weight-loss drug Wegovy (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

The family of a woman who died after being injected with a black market weight-loss drug has called for a crackdown on unlicensed so-called “skinny jabs”.

The daughters of 53-year-old Karen McGonigal, from Salford, Greater Manchester, told ITV News the mum-of-three died in May – days after she was illegally administered a dose of semaglutide.

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