Pfizer to Sell Impotence Drug Viagra in Switzerland From Monday
Bloomberg News
June 25, 1998, 1:09 a.m. PT
Zurich, June 25 (Bloomberg) -- Pfizer (Schweiz) AG, a Swiss
unit of the New York-based drugmaker Pfizer Inc., said it will
begin selling its impotency treatment Viagra in Switzerland
Monday, Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported, citing SDA news agency.
Pfizer said Viagra should be treated like any other drug
prescribed by doctors, and the cost of the drug should therefore
be covered by health insurance. This week Switzerland became the
first European country, and the third nation in the world, to
allow Viagra to be sold.
More than 1 million Viagra prescriptions were written in
the U.S. within weeks of its launch in May, while in Switzerland
pharmacies began dispensing Viagra on ''emergency''
prescriptions before the drug got official approval.
(Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 6/25, 16, or www.nzz.ch)
--Tavia Grant in the Zurich newsroom (41-1) 224 4111/ab |
