Table 7. District hospital average recurrent expenditures by volume and type of inpatient service.
Expenditures | Bagamoyo (TZ) | Kasulu (TZ) | Chokwe (MZ) | Catandica (MZ) | Mityana (UG) | Kiryandongo (UG) | ||||||
US$ | Percent | US$ | Percent | US$ | Percent | US$ | Percent | US$ | Percent | US$ | Percent | |
Overall hospital expenditures a | ||||||||||||
Per capita (district) | 1.44 | — | 1.28 | — | 1.53 | — | 1.13 | — | 0.36 | — | 0.80 | — |
Per admission | 53.02 | — | 85.24 | — | 43.33 | — | 42.11 | — | 39.96 | — | 68.81 | — |
Per inpatient day | 17.70 | — | 26.84 | — | 10.79 | — | 18.16 | — | 11.22 | — | 22.05 | — |
Overall surgical expenditures b | ||||||||||||
Per surgery | 56.41 | — | 98.82 | — | 41.54 | — | 49.03 | — | 55.34 | — | 304.28 | — |
Per capita | 0.14 | — | 0.13 | — | 0.10 | — | 0.08 | — | 0.05 | — | 0.07 | — |
Hospital expenditures by category of inpatient service c,d | ||||||||||||
Total surgical services | 31,700 | 10 | 84,492 | 11 | 19,358 | 7 | 11,376 | 7 | 33,980 | 14 | 33,470 | 9 |
Obstetric surgery | 16,255 | 5 | 25,445 | 3 | 7,201 | 3 | 5,472 | 4 | 16,033 | 6 | 31,109 | 8 |
General surgery | 15,445 | 5 | 59,047 | 7 | 12,157 | 4 | 5,904 | 4 | 17,947 | 7 | 2,361 | 1 |
Total nonsurgical services | 144,662 | 44 | 376,951 | 47 | 146,611 | 51 | 82,575 | 53 | 124,452 | 49 | 181,498 | 49 |
Normal deliveries | 25,505 | 8 | 64,875 | 8 | 30,078 | 10 | 40,219 | 26 | 39,928 | 16 | 28,927 | 8 |
Medical diagnoses | 119,157 | 36 | 312,076 | 39 | 116,533 | 41 | 42,356 | 27 | 84,524 | 34 | 152,571 | 41 |
Total operating expenditures | 329,716 | — | 800,662 | — | 286,593 | — | 155,908 | — | 251,448 | — | 369,419 | — |
The numerator is overall annual hospital expenditures.
The numerator is overall inpatient surgical expenditures.
For each percentage, the numerator is the expenditures for each inpatient service, and the denominator is the overall annual operating expenditures.
Cost allocation is done under the conservative assumption that 50% of personnel cost and 70% of non-personnel costs are attributable to inpatient care.
MZ, Mozambique; TZ,Tanzania; UG, Uganda.