Brexit WON’T be a passion killer... as Viagra set to be stockpiled

ONE of Britain’s biggest online pharmacies is stockpiling up to a million Viagra pills in preparation for a hard Brexit.

London-based Zava is the largest digital healthcare company in Europe and specialises in prescribing sexual health treatments for patients who avoid visiting their GP for fear of embarrassment.

The company, whose online pharmacy platform is used by Superdrug and which has a million active patients in the UK, usually keeps about two weeks of stock.

But chief executive David Meinertz told The Mail on Sunday the firm aims to extend that to three or four months by the end of the year – or about a million Viagra pills.

‘We’ve gone through the different medicines we typically prescribe in volumes and looked at various ways of sourcing them to make sure that if it’s really coming to a no-deal or a hard Brexit we’re prepared,’ he said.

‘Whatever happens we need to make sure we can care for the patients who come to us.’

Drugs firms fear a hard Brexit could disrupt medical supplies between the EU and Britain.

Last month, Pfizer, the American pharmaceutical giant which makes Viagra, hinted that it was stockpiling in case of a no-deal Brexit.

The key ingredient for Viagra is made in Ireland, but the pills are manufactured in France.

Pfizer estimates that at least a fifth of men in Britain suffer from erectile dysfunction, but few seek treatment.