Citizens spent one billion kuna on over-the-counter medicines last year

The consumption of medicines in Croatia continues to increase, last year citizens spent around 1 billion kuna on non-prescription medicines, mostly on analgesics and anti-fever medicines, according to data for 2022 from the HALMED Agency for Medicines and Medical Products.

On average, every inhabitant of Croatia took one and a half tablets a day.

39 and a half million kuna were spent last year on medicines such as Aspirin and Andol, and about 35 million on those with paracetamol, such as Lekadol or Lupocet. Ibuprofen was also in great demand, so citizens spent more than 58 million kuna on painkillers such as Neofen and similar.

A total of 10.4 billion kuna was spent on medicines in 2022, twice as much as in 2015, and for the first time this amount exceeded ten billion kuna.

Ibuprofen was bought significantly more than in previous years, and folic acid, medicines against high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases were also consumed more.

Most convincingly, the consumption of vitamin D3, used, among other things, in the prevention and therapy of Covid has increased the most.

The consumption of vitamin D per inhabitant has increased threefold in the past five years.

Source: HRT