Table 3.

Cost of vision screening of three to six-year-old children in Iran

	Unit cost (IR)	Persons paid in 2005	Duration involved in a year	Total cost (IR)
Salary to staff
Teacher	2000	1433540	1.5 months	2,867,080,000
Optician	9000	90319	4 months	812,871,000
Ophthalmologist	35000	6907	4 months	241,745,000
Program staff			4 months	2,760,000,000
Cost of care
Spectacles	200000	34062	-	6,812,400,000
Eye surgery	2000000	359	-	718,000,000
Amblyopia treatment	700000	11127		7,788,900,000
Grand Total				22,000,996,000

Unit cost of screening = US $ 1.5 = Iranian Rial 15,350, Unit cost of eye care of child with amblyopia – US $ 244 = Iranian Rial 2,450,000