In the 3rd quarter of 2023, 26.9 million transactions have been performed in the Latvian Medicines Verification System, of which 7 million packages were decommissioned and supplied to patients. During this period, the number of decommissioned packages increased by 2% compared to the corresponding period in 2022.
In the 3rd quarter, the proportion of alerts of transactions reached 0.02%. Most of alerts were generated in pharmacies – 56%, alerts were also generated in pharmaceutical wholesalers (14%) and in hospitals and other healthcare institutions (15%),
When summarizing the most frequent alert codes in the 3rd quarter of 2023, 34% of all were pack is already inactive, 27% – unknown serial number, 26% – batch ID mismatch, and 11% - batch ID unknown.