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The medicines for cardiovascular diseases treatment - the most consumed medicines in Latvia last year

16.06.2014.
 

The medicines for cardiovascular diseases treatment - the most consumed medicines in Latvia last year

 For the twelfth time the State Agency of Medicines has published the statistical report on consumption of medicines in the country, this time also including statistical data on consumption of medicines in Latvia from 2009 until 2013.

Like before, also in 2013 there was an increase in the number of packagings of medicines sold (44.33 millions of packagings - 1% increase) and in the turnover of medicines in euros (307.59 EUR - 4% increase). In 2013 the average price per packaging of medicines (~7 EUR) included in the Drug Register of Latvia increased by 3% (in comparison - in 2012 the increase was 2%). The average price per packaging of unauthorised medicines (~12 EUR) increased by 11 % in 2013 (in comparison - there was a decrease in price in the previous two years). Read more