A Swedish court has ordered local authorities to subsidize a 30-year-old man’s prescription for Viagra, according to UPI .
The man argued that having sex is essential to a reasonable quality of life, and the County Administrative Court in Majorna, Sweden, agreed.
A Swedish medical assistance program had denied the man’s original request because Viagra was not included on a list of subsidized medicines.
The court did not decide how often a person is entitled to receive the sexual potency pills, instead leaving that up to the local support unit of the program.
“This is clearly difficult to assess. How often should someone have Viagra? Is it once a week? Does that amount to a reasonable quality of life?” said Henrietta Nyberg, a spokesperson for the program.
Last year, British doctors treated a newborn boy with Viagra to open narrowed blood vessels around his lungs. The treatment was successful and the boy still takes Viagra six times a day in liquid form.