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. 2010 Mar 9;7(3):e1000242. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000242

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
a

The numerator is overall annual hospital expenditures.

b

The numerator is overall inpatient surgical expenditures.

c

For each percentage, the numerator is the expenditures for each inpatient service, and the denominator is the overall annual operating expenditures.

d

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.