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In order for patients to receive only safe medicines, pharmacies and health care institutions in the first nine months of 2021 have checked in the verification system and handed over 19 million packages of medicines to residents in Latvia.

Inese Erdmane, Chairwoman of the Board at LZVO share insights of the Latvian medicine’s verification process with Dansk Medicin Verifikation Organisation Newsletter.

To guarantee the safety and authenticity of medicines to patients, in the first half of 2021, 12 million packages of medicines were verified in the system and reached consumers in Latvia, according to the Latvian Medicines Verification Organization (LZVO) data

Vēl nekad sabiedrība nav tik uzmanīgi sekojusi līdzi zāļu izstrādes informācijai, aprakstiem un lietošanas instrukcijām kā šobrīd, Covid-19 pandēmijas laikā.

In the first quarter of 2021, in the medicines verification system, which guarantees the safety and authenticity of prescription medicines, 5.8 million packages of medicines were verified and have reached consumers.

Tā kā farmācijas uzņēmums “Pfizer” trešdien ir apstiprinājis, ka Meksikā un Polijā ir konstatētas un konfiscētas viltotas Covid-19 vakcīnas, Latvijas Zāļu verifikācijas organizācija (LZVO) aicina visus vakcīnu piegādes procesā iesaistītos pievērst īpašu uzmanību vakcīnu iepakojumam.