Table 2.

Sources of income and patient fees charged across eye departments by end of 2012

	Government Aa	Government Bb	Mission A	Mission Bc
Sources of income (TZS)
Governmentd	Unknown	17,180,000	7,900,000	0
Eye health donors	0	15,200,000	20,000,000	30,900,000
Patient fees	0	18,480,000	21,700,000	118,800,000
Total	Unknown	50,860,000	49,600,000	149,700,000
Patient fees charged for surgery	50,000	40,000	130,000	150,000

^aFinancial contributions could not be estimated by the cataract surgeon who did not participate in financial planning for the eye department in 2012. Income generation from eye surgeries began in 2013, so the 2013 patient fee value has been reported; patients also paid around TZS 4000 out of pocket on surgical consumables they were asked to provide privately

^bThis was the only hospital in the case study which sold spectacles (at TZS 20,000 per pair); this income has not been included in the analysis, for comparative purposes

^cDisbursement of donor funding in Mission Hospital B was severely delayed in 2012; in response, patient fees were increased that year from 80,000 to 150,000. In Mission Hospital A, fees were also increased that year from 85,000 to 130,000 in response to rising hospital costs

^dAn unknown, small proportion of income classified as ‘government’ comes from patient fees using general hospital services

TZS, Tanzanian Shilling