Table 4.

Annual Mean Cost of Hemodialysis Treatment Among ESRD Patients at the Tertiary Hospitals of AA City and Amhara Region, Ethiopia 2019 (n=172)

Cost Components	Mean ± (SD) of Cost	% of the Total Cost of Hemodialysis Treatment
Direct medical costs
Cost of dialysis	72,528.84 ($2675.35) ± 22,388.64 ($825.84)	59.9
Cost of drugs	4992.00 ($184.14) ± 3638.88 ($134.23)	4.1
Cost of lab investigations	1469.28 ($54.20) ± 2006.28 ($74.00)	1.2
Direct non-medical costs	14,311.23 ($527.89) ± 14,714.08 ($542.75)	11.8
Indirect costs	27,787.92 ($1025.00) ± 16,970.04 ($625.97)	23.0
Total cost	121,089.27 ($4466.59) ± 33,244.99 ($1226.29)	100.0

Note: US$1 =27.11 ETB according to the commercial bank of Ethiopia, December 2018.

Abbreviations: ETB, Ethiopian Birr; SD, standard deviation; US$, United States dollar.