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.

Karki et al. BMC Public Health 2007 7:84   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-84