Extremadura, Galicia and Asturias, the communities with more cost per capita in recipes

Madrid, 4 Apr (EFE).-the communities of Extremadura, Galicia and Asturias are the autonomies that had the higher cost per capita in medications prescription during the year 2011, with 297 euros in the first two cases and 293 in the third.

Thus consists in a study presented today by the Observatory of the medication of the Federation business of Spanish pharmacists (FEFE), which estimated at 11.136,38 million euros the total cost in Spain in recipes the past year, which means an average of 236 euros per person.

Above this average, are placed the Valencian Community (275 euros), Murcia (262), Aragon (260 euros), Castile and Leon (260 euros) and Castilla – La Mancha (255), in addition to La Rioja (245), Basque country (245) and Cantabria (238).

In the opposite end there are Madrid, with 183 euros; Balearic Islands, with 184 euros, and Andalusia, with 216 euros.

In total cost of recipes, top the list Andalusia (1.823,6 million euros), Catalonia (1.682,6 million euros) and the Valencian Community (1.406,6 million euros).

The following table collects, by autonomous communities, the cost of drugs for recipes and the cost per capita for the year 2011.

CCAA cost of prescriptions cost per capita

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Andalusia 1.823.687.146 216

Aragon 350.541.791 260

Asturias 317.137.548 293

Balearic 204.457.301 184

Canary 487.444.274 229

Cantabria 141.379.999 238

C-La 255 539.294.129 Mancha

C. and Leon 664.273.905 260

Catalonia 1.682.689.105 223

1.406.691.101 Valencia C. 275

Extremadura 329.916.112 297

829.194.308 297 Galicia

Madrid 1.185.773.780 183

385.709.194 262 Murcia

Navarra 148.287.156 231

country Basque 534.209.181 245

245 79.272.421 Rioja

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14.398.972 175 Ceuta

Melilla 12.096.580 154

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Total 11.136.386.997 236