According to TRNC Ministry of Health, the Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Department procures medicines and medical supplies for all TRNC public health services and distributes them through a General Pharmacy Depot to hospitals and health centres. Medicines are grouped into three lists: List (1)A (outpatient/polyclinic prescribable), List (1)B (dispensed only with Depot approval), and List (2) (for hospitalised patients). Off-list medicines can be collected by a patient from the Depot directly once the Directorate approves the prescription.
Claim record · last verified 22 September 2026
How to read this claim
- Jurisdiction
- Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
- Verification
- Secondary source onlyWhy this is published: This is official administrative guidance describing how the public pharmaceutical-supply system operates in practice — the underlying Cap 254 Pharmacy and Poisons Law was not fetched or read, so the legal basis for the three-list system is not independently confirmed at the statute level.
- Legal review
- Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer.
Editorial note
This claim does not establish what an uninsured or visitor patient specifically pays for medicines outside the Social Security Article 76 co-payment framework, which applies only to Social-Security-insured persons.
Version history
- — Published from primary-source research. (version 1, First published)
Sources for this claim
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- [1]Ministry of Health, TRNC — Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy Department (İlaç ve Eczacılık Dairesi) official page
Ministry of Health, TRNC · Court decisions · original in Turkish · accessed 19 September 2026 · source record
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https://northcyprusreference.com/en/claims/pharmacy-three-tier-medicine-list-and-central-depot
Identifier pharmacy-three-tier-medicine-list-and-central-depot · Open data · challenge