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Table 2 Capital and recurrent costs

From: Costs of vaginal delivery and Caesarean section at a tertiary level public hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan

  

Costs converted to US$

Input cost as % of

Cost category

Input cost

Annual Hospital

Per SVD

Per CS

Capital/recurr

Total

Cost

Capital

Medical equipment

131411

3

13

48.4

8

 

Building & commodities

122939

3

119

45

7.4

 

Bank & consultancy

15308

0.4

1.5

5.7

0.057

 

Vehicles

1070

0.03

0.1

0.4

0.06

 

Land

110

0.003

0.01

0.04

0.0007

Total capital

 

270838

6.6

26.4

100

16.8

Recurrent

Personnel

574845

14

56

41

35

 

Transfer payments

83261

206

8

6

5

 

Utilities

270561

7

27

19.5

16

 

Drugs

135284

3

13

9.7

8.2

 

Occupancy

103162

2.5

10

7.4

6.3

 

Administration

51162

1.3

5

3.7

3

 

Repair & maintenance

35051

0.9

3.4

2.5

2.1

 

Blood bank

180187

0.6

3.4

2.5

1.5-2.0

 

Plant purchases

30746

0.7

3

2.1

1.9

 

Communication

26442

0.6

2.6

1.8

1.6

 

Transport

14447

0.4

1.4

1

0.9

 

Laboratory

223881

0.3

1.5

1

0.6-0.9

 

Housekeeping etc

11930

0.3

1.2

0.9

0.7

 

Training

5780

0.1

0.6

0.4

0.3

Total recurrent

 

1341165

34

136

100

83.2

TOTAL

 

1612002

40

162

 

100