. 2017 Sep 19;17:669. doi: 10.1186/s12913-017-2619-z

Table 2.

Unit cost of inpatient units at Pyinmanar General Hospital (PMN GH) and Magway Teaching Hospital (MTH) in 2015–2016

Cost center	Unit	PMN GH			MTH
		Output	Unit cost		Output	Unit cost
		Output	Kyats	USD	Output	Kyats	USD
Medicine	Inpatient day	11,091	35,425	34.5	17,195	19,704	19.2
Medicine	Case	3554	110,552	107.5	2702	125,392	121.9
Surgery	Inpatient day	10,214	35,676	34.7	18,925	39,483	38.4
Surgery	Case	2719	134,017	130.4	2967	251,842	244.9
Obstetrics and gynecology	Inpatient day	12,265	34,602	33.7	11,605	31,668	30.8
Obstetrics and gynecology	Case	3249	130,621	127.1	2051	179,182	174.3
Pediatrics	Inpatient day	13,454	28,374	27.6	7915	21,587	20.9
Pediatrics	Case	3325	114,759	111.6	1421	120,239	116.9
Orthopedics	Inpatient day	11,828	35,291	34.3	11,372	36,733	35.7
Orthopedics	Case	1695	246,265	239.6	1151	362,925	353.0
Eye	Inpatient day	1911	278,259	270.7	977	168,835	164.2
Eye	Case	945	562,701	547.4	502	328,589	319.6
ENT^a	Inpatient day	81	1,961,806	1908.4
ENT^a	Case	17	9,347,429	9092.8
Oncology^b	Case				575	260,869	253.8

1 USD = 1028 kyats (on 2nd April, 2015)

^aEar, nose and throat

^bDuring the study period, oncology patients were admitted to inpatient unit which referred them to oncology unit. So, the unit cost per inpatient day for oncology unit was not calculated