Whether the special diabetic diet qualifies for reimbursement as supplementary benefits / sickness costs.
The diet does not justify continued reimbursement on the facts shown; diabetic diets are not, as a rule, treated as causing additional costs beyond normal food expenses.
The court relied on Art. 14 al. 1 let. d LPC and the case law under Art. 9 aOMPC. It held that only a medically prescribed diet indispensable to survival and involving duly established additional costs can be reimbursed. The appellant did not show that his wife's situation fell outside the general rule for diabetes, and the medical certificate was too general.