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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

India’s doctors sound alarm over boom in availability of weight loss jabs

Vials of Mounjaro in a health clinic fridge
Mounjaro is India’s highest-selling drug – overtaking antibiotics – eight months after it was approved for sale in the country. Photograph: Almaas Masood/Reuters

India’s leading doctors have warned of the dangers of an unregulated boom in weight loss injections, and emphasised they are not a magic pill to solve the country’s growing epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

Demand for appetite-suppressing drugs such as Mounjaro, Wegovy and Ozempic has surged since they were introduced into the Indian market this year.

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