Table 1 Average household cost of cholera treatment, BDT (US$ * )
Costs | Parameters | Average cost | Standard deviation | Proportion of total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Direct Medical | Diagnostic | 9.6 (0.1) | 75.7 (1) | 9 |
Medicine | 148.7 (2) | 246 (3.) | ||
Registration fee | 26.1 (0.3) | 130.6 (1.7) | ||
Paramedics home visit fee | 2.8 (-) | 21.5 (0.3) | ||
Bed/ Cabin charge | 16.9 (0.2) | 130.7 (1.7) | ||
Direct Non-Medical | Transportation cost | 140 (1.9) | 122 (1.6) | 15.6 |
food items | 63(0.8) | 85 (1.1) | ||
Informal payment | 0.7 (-) | 9 (0.1) | ||
Caregivers payment | 0.1 (-) | 1 (-) | ||
Materials (mug/glass/coil etc.) | 10.6(0.1) | 17 (0.2) | ||
Lodging | 28 (0.4) | 101 (1.3) | ||
Caregivers expenditure | 113.2 (1.5) | 172 (2.3) | ||
Total direct cost | 559.5 (7.4) | 641.7 (8.5) | 24.6 | |
In-direct | Patients income loss | 811 (11) | 4,301 (57) | |
Caregivers income loss | 908 (12.2) | 3,701 (49) | ||
Total indirect cost | 1,719 (23) | 5,656 (75.4) | 75.4 | |
Total cost of illness of household | 2,278.5 (30.4) | 5,668 (75.6) | 100 | |