UK reviews medical care for obese patients
Experts question if overweight people who cost health service $8bn per year should receive state support.
Published On 10 Aug 2013
In the UK, over 60 percent of people are overweight. Medical experts say that obesity is a leading cause of preventable deaths which costs the health service almost $8bn every year.
Should people who refuse to stop smoking, another leading cause of diseases in the country, or who are grossly overweight receive medical support?
That is a question being asked increasingly in the UK, where the National Health Service is struggling to cope.
Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports from Blackpool.
Source: Al Jazeera