Recurrent costs in primary health care in Ethiopia: facility and disease specific unit costs and their components in government primary hospitals and health centers

Table 4 Annual costs of delivering healthcare services by health facility (median costs)

	Health Centers (n = 40)		Primary Hopitals (n = 24)
Annual Cost	ETB	PPP $, 2012	ETB	PPP $, 2012
Drugs and pharmaceutical supplies	1,690,499	197,951	4,726,543	553,459
Human resources	1,241,826	145,413	4,483,344	524,982
Indirect expenditures	287,367	33,650	1,968,421	230,494
Total expenditure	3,924,119	459,499	12,012,302	1,405,152

PPP Purchasing power parity conversion factor = 8.54 Ethiopian birr to international dollar [17]

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