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Table 7 Economic cost of medical treatment overseas

From: The economic burden of overseas medical treatment: a cross sectional study of Maldivian medical travelers

Ā 

Median per capita cost per visit (IQR) $

Est no of medical visits 2013

Annual cost per year (ase) $

% of GDP 2013 (ase)

Ā 

(a)

(b)

(c)ā€‰=ā€‰(aā€‰Ć—ā€‰b)

Ā 

Government subsidized (nā€‰=ā€‰344)

Ā Ā Ā 

medical travelers

1905.08 (1254.4,3554.4)

b3546

6,755,426 (851,408.3)

0.47 (0.11)

caretakers (meanā€‰=ā€‰2.3)

965.25 (679.8,1330.5)

8156

7,872,579 (387,083.3)

0.55 (0.08)

Private funded (nā€‰=ā€‰471)

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

medical travelers

1147.33 (709.6,1783)

15462

17,740,068 (1,595,637)

1.24 (0.08)

caretakers (meanā€‰=ā€‰3.3)

716.21 (470.6,1023)

51026

36,544,821 (1,656,017)

2.55 (0.07)

Productivity loss (nā€‰=ā€‰815)

0 (0,156.5)

Ā 

0 (57.23)

0 (0)

Total

Ā 

78190

68,912,894 (5,586,963)

4.81 (0.07)

  1. (a) Costs from Study results, (b) population estimates from secondary data and study results, (c) extrapolations using (a) and (b)
  2. GDP 2013ā€‰=ā€‰$ 1,431Ā m, bnumber of visits subsidized by UC program, aBootstrap estimations