For 250 million obese Indians, the weight is finally over

A person holding two packages of semaglutide injection pens, Ozempic and Wegovy.

When a cancer patient suggested that she try a drug to lose weight, Anisa Iyer first learned the name Ozempic. But then 32-year-old Iyer, a nurse at a private hospital in Delhi who has been obese for years, discovered the drug was costing £200 to £300 a month. “We’re a middle-class family,” she says. “We … Read more