Control of General Medicine Supply Using Critical Index ABC Analysis at Department of Pharmacy Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital Palembang

Background : Department of Pharmacy Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital serves all the needs of outpatient and inpatient care unit. Control of medicine management at Department of Pharmacy Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital is not really good enough. It can be seen from a gap of medicine supply at certain time. Methods : This research is a descriptive study. The population at this research about 1202 items of general medicine and the sample about 180 items of general medicine. The critical values ​​of general medicine with check list form while the secondary data obtained from data report of the Department of Pharmacy Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital. Results : By using the ABC Critical Index Analysis, the results shows that from 180 items of medicine, 37 items are group A, 96 items of medicine classified as group B, and 47 items of medicine are group C. As for control of inventory of the planning, procurement, storage and distribution to the group A critical index general medicine done at the Department of Pharmacy Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital have not been going well, it can be seen from the inappropriate method of consumption used to calculate the number of medicine needs, the calculation of the number of procurement and the time of procurement is only based on estimation and also some items of medicine were still stock out and over stock during the period of January to March 2012. Conclusion : Department of Pharmacy Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital needs to apply ABC Critical Index method in setting priorities for the planning, procurement and supervision of medicine use to make it more effective and efficient which aims to prevent a stock out or over stock inventory