National Council of the Order of Pharmacists of Tunisia Expresses Support for Ministerial Council's Decisions
The National Council of the Order of Pharmacists of Tunisia (CNOPT) expressed its support, on Friday, for the decisions of the Restricted Ministerial Council (CMR) of September 3, 2025, aimed at rationalizing and improving the governance of the pharmaceutical sector. This includes ensuring a regular supply of medicines and revising the health insurance system.
In a statement published on its official page, the CNOPT highlighted the importance of implementing these measures on the ground, reaffirming its total support for any initiative aimed at ensuring the satisfaction of citizens' needs for medicines.
Among the announced decisions, the CNOPT cited the development of a digital platform to monitor the national market's supply of medicines. This platform will enable the detection of current or potential shortages and proactive remediation.
In this context, the CNOPT noted that it had proposed the launch and development of this platform.
The National Council of the Order of Pharmacists also praised the efforts of pharmacists to ensure patients' access to medicines across the country, despite difficulties. It called on all healthcare system actors to manage the use of medicines rationally at all levels, in a spirit of cooperation and complementarity, for the benefit of patients and society.
Chaired by the Head of Government, Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri, the CMR had recommended strengthening the financial resources of the Central Pharmacy of Tunisia, intensifying control of the drug chain to improve governance, and monitoring the local market's supply via a digital platform to optimize distribution and stock management.
The Council had also approved the establishment of new pharmaceutical system management mechanisms, the implementation of a global digital transformation, the reduction of examination deadlines for marketing authorization (MA) applications for imported medicines without local equivalents, and a thorough and global revision of the health insurance system.
