Costs of a successful public-private partnership for TB control in an urban setting in Nepal

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Breakdown of institutional costs (all costs are in US$)

	Institutional Costs
		Treatment Centres
							All TCs		TOTAL
	DPHO	YUHP	Care & Fair	NATA	Patan Hospital	Hargan's NH	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
No of Patients	509	191	44	48	140	86	509
Start-up costs
Total reported:
Training	1,151	390	34	15	112	13		565
Equipment	1,693	179	0	213	6,410	11		6,814
Managerial set-up	780	86	9	1	63	0		159
Social mobilisation	0	5	0	359	205	0		569
Total reported costs	3,625	660	43	588	6,791	24		8,107		11,731
Total costs per patient	7.10	3.50	1.00	12.30	48.50	0.30	3.50	15.90	10.60	23.00
Recurrent costs
Total reported costs:
Staff	2,170	1,470	824	667	4,211	815		7,987
Medicines	5,992	0	0	0	0	0		0
Supplies and transportation	889	37	36	0	0	8		80
Training	987	58	26	16	39	30		168
Others	366	774	1,180	383	219	882		3,438
Total reported costs	10,404	2,339	2,066	1,065	4,469	1,735		11,673		22,077
Total costs per patient per 8-month course	20.80	8.20	31.30	14.80	21.30	13.40	14.80	17.80	35.60	38.60
TOTAL INSTITUTIONAL COSTS	27.90						18.30	33.70	46.20	61.60

The breakdown of institutional start-up and recurrent costs is presented with all costs being in US$
Note 1: DPHO training costs include only training of TC staff related to the PPP.
Note 2: Total cost per patient across all Treatment Centres was calculated as the median of TC costs. For individual TCs, costs per patient are the mean start-up costs.
Note 3: Recurrent costs per patient per 8-month course across all Treatment Centres was calculated as the median of TC costs. For individual TCs, costs per patient are the mean of recurrent costs per patient.

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