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Table 4 Estimated current annual cost (USD) of PAC in 93 PAC-providing public health facilities1

From: Costs of postabortion care in public sector health facilities in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey

 

Median per-case cost

Caseload2

Annual cost (USD)

Annual cost (MWK)3

PAC treatment category

Simple [interquartile range]

$13 [$12 - $25]

12,346

$161,738 [$141,984 - $307,425]

24,260,676

Severe non-surgical [interquartile range]

$63 [$61 - $81]

2,342

$147,571 [$141,949 - $189,969]

22,135,680

Severe surgical [interquartile range]

$128 [$95 - $140]

37

$4,699 [$3,473 - $5,128]

704,916

All procedures [interquartile range]

$40 [$36 - $55]

14,725

$314,008 [$287,406 - $502,522]

47,101,272

  1. 1Caseload data collection occurred in 2009; cost data collection occurred in 2010
  2. 2Annual caseload calculated as 1 month of PAC cases requiring UE times 12.2 (unweighted data)
  3. 3Malawian Kwacha: 150 MWK = 1 USD