PELAKSANAAN KEBIJAKAN OBAT GENERIK DI APOTEK KABUPATEN PELALAWAN PROVINSI RIAU IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERIC MEDICINE POLICY AT PHARMACY STORE ON PELALAWAN DISTRICT IN RIAU PROVINCE

Background: Medicine is an integral part of community health service. Therefore it must be available in sufficient quantity, types and adeqaute quality, properly distributed and accessible for community when its needed. In order to meet the community’s need for medicine and to guarantee medicine accessibility, the government released generic medicine policy. Although the price of the generic medicine has already been set up and fixed by government, there are variety of the price still can be found on implementation of the generic medicine sold in the pharmacy store or in the market, and can cause price uncertainty for community in finding medicine they need.