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Table 2 Unit costs (US$) for outpatient and inpatient care

From: Cost-effectiveness of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine compared with artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated malaria in children at a district hospital in Tanzania

Out-patient care for uncomplicated malaria

  

Service centres

Cost

Unit costs

Cost category

Items

Outpatient

Pharmacy

Laboratory

Total

AL

DhP

Recurrent

Antimalaria drugs

-

-

-

-

1.31

1.46

 

Other drugs

    

0.26

0.26

 

Personnel

22,988

7,748

6,066

36,802

5.20

5.20

 

Rental of buildings

1,131

538

1,647

3,316

0.47

0.47

 

Utilities

1,533

1,368

1,539

4,440

0.63

0.63

 

Supplies

700

699

1,558

2,957

0.42

0.42

Capital

Equipment

31

89

108

228

0.03

0.03

 

Motor vehicles

70

25

25

121

0.02

0.02

 

Furniture

162

109

69

340

0.05

0.05

Total unit costs

 

8.40

8.54

Inpatient care for severe malaria

Cost category

Items

Paediatric ward

Pharmacy

Laboratory

Total

Unit costs

Recurrent

Drugs

-

-

-

-

7.40

 

Personnel

75,895

1,202

845

77,942

61.71

 

Rental of buildings

8,012

717

305

9,034

7.15

 

Utilities

3,780

494

285

4,559

3.61

 

Supplies

2,265

162

288

2,715

2.15

Capital

Equipment

442

21

20

482

0.38

 

Motor vehicles

457

3

5

465

0.37

 

Furniture

1,319

39

13

1,371

1.09

Total unit costs

 

83.86