According to a study prepared by the Nova Information Management System (NOVA IMS), which will be presented on Tuesday,10.8% of Portuguese chose not to buy a drug prescribed by a doctor due to the cost. In 2016 this figure reahced 11.8%.

According to this study, prepared by NOVA IMS, of Lisbon's Nova University the percentage of patients who have stopped buying medicines because of the price has always declined, from 15.7% in the first year of the study (2014) to 14.2% by 2015.