Table 2.

Expenditures on hospitalization, by place of residence and type of hospital used, Vadodara, India

	Urban			Rural
	Public	Private	Total	Public	Private	Total
Observations	198	198	396	200	200	400
Median total expenditures (Rs.)	677.5	4330.5	2525	390	1530	910
Median daily total expenditures (Rs./d)	119.5	629.72	394.44	93.75	277.64	138.33
% breakdown of total expenditures
Medical fees
Doctors’ fees	0.2	31.8	24.9	2.6	19.2	16.3
Medicine fees	55.5	25.3	31.9	51.5	40.4	42.3
Bed fees	0.5	14.4	11.4	4.3	14.2	12.5
Laboratory fees	21.6	9.5	12.1	4.8	8.3	7.7
Ambulance charges	1.1	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.1
Other	5.5	8.8	8.1	6.0	6.9	6.7
Sub-total	84.5	90.3	89.1	69.7	89.1	85.7
Non-medical fees	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Food	6.3	5.4	5.6	12.4	5.4	6.6
Travel	9.0	4.3	5.3	17.6	5.5	7.6
Lodging	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.1
Sub-total	15.5	9.7	10.9	30.3	10.9	14.3
Total fees	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0