🇲🇨 Monaco Healthcare Guide
Healthcare in Monaco is among the best in the world — modern, multilingual, centred on Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, with French specialists a few kilometres away in Nice.
Quick facts
- Emergency number: 112
- Ambulance: 18
- Healthcare system: mixed
- Average GP visit: $60 USD
- EHIC/GHIC accepted: No
- Language barrier: low
Healthcare overview
Monaco's public health system is run by Caisses Sociales de Monaco (CCSS), which contracts care through the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (CHPG) — the principality's main public hospital — and a network of private clinics and specialists. Residents pay social contributions; visitors pay out of pocket and reclaim through travel insurance.
Standards match France's (Monaco's healthcare workforce is largely French-trained), and most providers speak English in addition to French and Italian. CHPG's emergency department is open 24/7 and handles the principality's full critical-care load. For complex specialties, patients are referred to Nice University Hospital, 30 minutes away.
Vaccinations
Recommended
- Routine vaccines up to date
Prescriptions and pharmacies
French and EU prescriptions are accepted at Monégasque pharmacies. Non-EU prescriptions are not directly fillable — bring a doctor's letter with each medication's INN (generic) name, dose, and indication.
France's narcotics rules apply: opioids, stimulants, and benzodiazepines need documentation if you're travelling with more than 30 days' supply. Carry meds in original packaging in your hand luggage.
Pharmacies (pharmacies, identified by the green cross) are everywhere in the principality and well stocked. Acetaminophen is sold as Doliprane, ibuprofen as Advil or Nurofen.
An on-call pharmacy (pharmacie de garde) operates every night and Sunday — the rotation is posted on every pharmacy window and at chpg.mc.