Table 1.

Non-communicable disease clinic start-up costs

Cost component	Total cost (US$)
Construction of NCD clinic	12 633
Baseline NCD training	10 824
Training cost per nurse	5412
Transportation	500
Accommodation	1071
Food	3000
Training materials	330
Trainer fees	466
Communication fees	45
Clinic equipment and supplies	24 519
Furniture	1495
BP cuff, patient scale, peak flow meter, glucometer	476
Ultrasound equipment*	19 500
INR machine†	490
HbA1c POC machine‡	275
Computers/printer	1471
Charts/office supplies	812
Butaro NCD start-up cost	47 976

*Cardiac ultrasound purchased was SonoSite MicroMaxx (SonoSite, Bothell, Washington, USA) portable ultrasound machine (US$15 500) with 5–1 MHz and 8–4 MHz probes for adult and paediatric studies (US$3000). Price of 6000 denotes price of hand-held Lumify Ultrasound system (Phillips, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

†INR machine used Is Coagucheck Pro II (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA).

‡Point-of-care HbA1c machine is SD A1c Care (SD BIOSENSOR, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea).

BP, blood pressure; HbA1c, haemoglobin A1c; INR, international normalised ratio; NCD, non-communicable disease; POC, point of care.