Unit cost of healthcare services at 200-bed public hospitals in Myanmar: what plays an important role of hospital budgeting?

Table 1 Basic characteristics of Pyinmanar General Hospital (PMN GH) and Magway Teaching Hospital (MTH) in 2015–2016

Basic characteristic	PMN GH	MTH
Sanctioned beds	200	200
Available beds	270	245
Total number of staff^a	232	288
Bed occupancy rate for sanctioned beds	83.35%	93.14%
Bed occupancy rate for available beds	61.74%	76.03%
Inpatient days^b	60,844	67,991
Outpatient visits	59,882	26,683
Admissions	15,504	11,369
Operations	3118	3743
Major operations	1319	2761
Minor operations	1799	982
Laboratory tests	21,740	71,325
Blood transfusions	2260	3308
Patients examined by a X-ray test	10,502	6944
X-ray film used	13,996	9388
Patients examined by an ultrasound test	5671	0

^aAt PMN GH; Consultant doctors 6.8%; Medical officers 13.6%; Nurses 37%; Medical technician 8.9%; others - 33.6%; At MTH; Consultant doctors 5.1%; Medical officers 13.4%; Nurses 44.5%; Medical technician 5.7%; others 20.9%; Teaching staff (Professor, Associate Professor, Lecturer, Assistant Lecture) 2.7%; Post graduate students 7.8%
^bA day of inpatient care provided to a patient in a hospital which begins at midnight and ends 24 h later at the next midnight [33]

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