In China all the OTC medicine can be bought from the pharmacies, whilst the prescription medicine has to be bought from hospital with a doctor’s prescription. If you have bought the local medical insurance, the visit to the doctor and obtaining medicine use only the insurance card and no cash is needed. On the other hand, if you are not locally insured or have no insurance at all, all these shall be paid by you.
Over-the-counter drugs in China we can buy in the pharmacy, prescription drugs bought a prescription in the hospital for a doctor to the hospital only. If I buy the local social security, see a doctor and buy medicine brush direct social security don't have to pay cash, but there is no social security, if the local social security or is the need to pay.