The State Agency of Medicines has issued the report “Statistics on Medicines Consumption 2017”

The State Agency of Medicines has issued the report “Statistics on Medicines Consumption 2017”

The State Agency of Medicines (SAM) has published the new report “Statistics on Medicines Consumption 2017” that includes data on medicines consumption in Latvia from 2013 to 2017.

According to the statistical data the sales volume of authorised medicines in Latvia from 2016 to 2017 has increased by 6%, reaching 392.78 million euros in 2017. Acetylsalicylic acid and ibuprofen were the most selling non-prescription medicines in Latvia in 2017 according to international non-proprietary names (INN). The most sold Latvian manufacturers’ medicines with the respect to the turnover in euros and to the number of packages sold over the last five years were meldonium containing medicines. Read more