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. 2022 Jun 13;40:100592. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100592

Table 1.

Direct costs associated with healthcare and implementation of interventions, derived from ongoing practices in Bangladesh.

Item Description of activities Costs (USD)
Hospital care Provision of hospital beds and associated care (mechanical ventilation, oxygen etc.) for severely ill COVID-19 patients. $649/week/ICU patient;
$266/week/non-ICU patient.
Community Support Team (CST) package The CST package covers:
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    community health worker training (both initial training and one refresher training session for each volunteer in 2020) and equipment

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    monthly allowance per volunteer, area manager and coordinator, covering honorarium, phone credit, and travel.

Each volunteer can visit 20–40 quarantining households per day. Plans were to train 2000 volunteers; deemed sufficient to cover the Dhaka District population. An area manager is assumed for every 25–26 volunteers (78 total), and a coordinator for every 3–4 area managers (22 total).		 $466/volunteer trained and equipped;
$8,470 one-time cost for telemedicine training for a subset of volunteers;
$151 allowance/month/volunteer;
$253 allowance/month/area manager;
$447 allowance/month/ coordinator;
$8,962/month advertising cost.
Masks An average of 5 re-usable cloth masks was provided to each household in Dhaka District. Mask wearing was promoted through a public awareness campaign. $1/mask;
$8,962/month advertising cost.
Lockdown Public awareness campaign to encourage people to remain at home and practice social distancing. $8,962/month advertising cost.