Central Pharmacy of Tunisia (Pharmacie centrale de Tunisie)

The mission of the Central Pharmacy of Tunisia is to ensure the regularity in the supply of the country for the products for which it holds the import monopoly as well as the distribution of the products and supplies necessary for human and veterinary medicine to the various public health structures. , semi-public and private.

It is a public establishment with an industrial and commercial aspect, founded in 1938 and under the Ministry of Public Health.

The central Pharmacy plays a major role due to its import and marketing monopoly among wholesale distributors, drugstores and other customers of medicines, vaccines and biological products (such as bandages, ligature supplies and other medical devices).

This monopoly is part of the state strategy.

The CPT may thus take part in the purchase cost control of medicines and mainly ensure their quality.

It’s a unique model that most sub-Saharan countries wish to adopt in order to put an end to the distribution of counterfeit products.