Table 3.
Economic cost of STI clinics in the 2003–2004 fiscal year.
| STI clinic* | Total economic cost | Percent of economic cost | Percent cost due to inpatient services† | Number of STIs treated | Cost per STI treated | ||||||
| INR | US$ | Personnel | Recurrent goods | Rentals | Recurrent services | Capital goods | INR | US$ | |||
| Medical college hospitals | |||||||||||
| MC6 | 1283694 | 27937 | 76.5 | 12.2 | 6.2 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 8.3 | 2223 | 577.5 | 12.6 |
| MC5 | 1345786 | 29288 | 82.7 | 7.4 | 6.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 1743 | 772.1 | 16.8 |
| MC4 | 1746668 | 38012 | 75.0 | 10.0 | 11.3 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 9.8 | 2186 | 799.0 | 17.4 |
| MC3 | 1569840 | 34164 | 80.6 | 9.7 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 5.3 | 1921 | 817.2 | 17.8 |
| MC2 | 1061341 | 23098 | 66.8 | 8.8 | 19.2 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 10.2 | 1078 | 984.5 | 21.4 |
| MC1 | 3345020 | 72797 | 79.8 | 8.0 | 9.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 17.2 | 2784 | 1201.5 | 26.1 |
| All MC | 10352349 | 225296 | 77.7 | 9.1 | 9.6 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 10.4 | 11935 | 867.4 | 18.9 |
| District headquarter hospitals | |||||||||||
| DHQ1 | 396627 | 8632 | 63.9 | 25.3 | 6.4 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 11.0 | 1759 | 225.5 | 4.9 |
| DHQ2 | 349816 | 7613 | 62.5 | 22.7 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 15.0 | 1320 | 265.0 | 5.8 |
| DHQ3 | 612111 | 13321 | 73.2 | 9.8 | 14.1 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 9.1 | 1012 | 604.9 | 13.2 |
| DHQ4 | 800543 | 17422 | 75.3 | 4.9 | 16.7 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 5.2 | 323 | 2478.5 | 53.9 |
| All DHQ | 2159097 | 46988 | 70.5 | 12.9 | 12.7 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 9.0 | 4414 | 489.1 | 10.6 |
| Area hospitals | |||||||||||
| AH2 | 198736 | 4325 | 60.2 | 18.4 | 11.9 | 5.9 | 3.6 | 14.2 | 582 | 341.5 | 7.4 |
| AH4 | 329889 | 7179 | 71.5 | 14.4 | 9.0 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 9.7 | 767 | 430.1 | 9.4 |
| AH3 | 340348 | 7407 | 78.7 | 11.2 | 5.4 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 558 | 609.9 | 13.3 |
| AH1 | 339572 | 7390 | 76.0 | 14.2 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 551 | 616.3 | 13.4 |
| All AH | 1208545 | 26301 | 72.9 | 14.1 | 7.4 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 6.9 | 2458 | 491.7 | 10.7 |
| Total | 13719992 | 298585 | 76.2 | 10.2 | 9.9 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 9.9 | 18807 | 729.5 | 15.9 |
INR is Indian Rupee
1 US$ = INR 45.95 (average exchange rate in the 2003–2004 fiscal year) [11]
*STI clinics arranged within each hospital type category in decreasing order of cost-efficiency, i.e. increasing order of cost per STI treated.
†This inpatient cost does not include cost of medicines for treatment of STIs, which would have been incurred even if these patients were treated as outpatient.