Belgium wants to temporarily ban the use of Novo Nordisk's (NOVOb.CO) diabetes drug Ozempic as a weight loss treatment amid a shortage of the medicine, the Belgian health minister said on Monday.
Pens for the diabetes drug Ozempic sit on a production line to be packaged at Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk's site in Hillerod, Denmark, September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tom Little/File Photodiabetes drug Ozempic as a weight loss treatment amid a shortage of the medicine, the Belgian health minister said on Monday.
"I know that this drug can also be useful for people who suffer from morbid obesity so we obviously need to discuss it. But I am convinced that we need a strong and legal signal because simple recommendations are not enough," he said. A meeting of the working group on the availability of medicines, which includes representatives of pharmacists, insurers, distributors, the pharmaceutical industry and the government, will take place tomorrow to decide on the ban.to people who don't have type 2 diabetes as soon as possible. They are also banned from starting new patients with type 2 diabetes on the medicine for as long as the shortage lasts.
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