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 5 Unit costs of delivering health care services by health facility (median cost)

	Health Center Unit Costs (N = 40)		Primary Hospitals Unit Costs (N = 24)
Facility/Department Type	ETB	PPP $, 2012	ETB	PPP $, 2012
Health facility	146	17	339	40
OPD	124	14	252	29
IPD^a	340	40	1288	151
MCH	145	17	310	36
Delivery	647	76	945	111

^aSample for IPD unit costs for the health centers was reduced from 40 to 30 because only 30 health centers had IPDs

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