Table 3. Estimated costs of treating 1908 self-poisoned patients in the Anuradhapura General Hospital in Sri Lanka in 2006.
| Type of poison | Patients (No.) | Average cost per patient (US$) | Total cost (US$) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pesticide | 886 | 49.12 | 43 520.32 | |||
| Organophosphate | 351 | 87.44 | 30 691.44 | |||
| Carbamate | 105 | 51.80 | 5 439.00 | |||
| Herbicide | 54 | 10.49 | 566.46 | |||
| Unknown and other | 376 | 35.47 | 13 336.72 | |||
| Yellow oleander seeds (Thevetia peruviana) | 410 | 5.25 | 2 152.50 | |||
| Medicine | 312 | 9.27 | 2 892.24 | |||
| Other | 8 | 31.83 | 254.64 | |||
| Unknown | 292 | 31.83 | 9 294.36 | |||
| All | — | — | 58 114.06 | |||
US$, United States dollars.