Cost and efficiency of public sector sexually transmitted infection clinics in Andhra Pradesh, India

Table 3 Economic cost of STI clinics in the 2003–2004 fiscal year.

STI clinic*	Total economic cost		Percent of economic cost					Percent cost due to inpatient services†	Number of STIs treated	Cost per STI treated
	INR	US$	Personnel	Recurrent goods	Rentals	Recurrent services	Capital goods			INR	US$
Medical college hospitals
MC6	1283694	27937	76.5	12.2	6.2	2.7	2.4	8.3	2223	577.5	12.6
MC5	1345786	29288	82.7	7.4	6.7	1.7	1.6	2.6	1743	772.1	16.8
MC4	1746668	38012	75.0	10.0	11.3	1.8	1.9	9.8	2186	799.0	17.4
MC3	1569840	34164	80.6	9.7	6.0	2.0	1.7	5.3	1921	817.2	17.8
MC2	1061341	23098	66.8	8.8	19.2	3.0	2.1	10.2	1078	984.5	21.4
MC1	3345020	72797	79.8	8.0	9.9	1.2	1.1	17.2	2784	1201.5	26.1
All MC	10352349	225296	77.7	9.1	9.6	1.9	1.6	10.4	11935	867.4	18.9
District headquarter hospitals
DHQ1	396627	8632	63.9	25.3	6.4	2.9	1.4	11.0	1759	225.5	4.9
DHQ2	349816	7613	62.5	22.7	8.2	3.4	3.3	15.0	1320	265.0	5.8
DHQ3	612111	13321	73.2	9.8	14.1	1.8	1.1	9.1	1012	604.9	13.2
DHQ4	800543	17422	75.3	4.9	16.7	1.8	1.3	5.2	323	2478.5	53.9
All DHQ	2159097	46988	70.5	12.9	12.7	2.2	1.6	9.0	4414	489.1	10.6
Area hospitals
AH2	198736	4325	60.2	18.4	11.9	5.9	3.6	14.2	582	341.5	7.4
AH4	329889	7179	71.5	14.4	9.0	2.8	2.2	9.7	767	430.1	9.4
AH3	340348	7407	78.7	11.2	5.4	3.0	1.7	6.2	558	609.9	13.3
AH1	339572	7390	76.0	14.2	5.0	3.0	1.7	0.6	551	616.3	13.4
All AH	1208545	26301	72.9	14.1	7.4	3.4	2.2	6.9	2458	491.7	10.7
Total	13719992	298585	76.2	10.2	9.9	2.1	1.7	9.9	18807	729.5	15.9

INR is Indian Rupee
1 US$ = INR 45.95 (average exchange rate in the 2003–2004 fiscal year) [11]
*STI clinics arranged within each hospital type category in decreasing order of cost-efficiency, i.e. increasing order of cost per STI treated.
†This inpatient cost does not include cost of medicines for treatment of STIs, which would have been incurred even if these patients were treated as outpatient.

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