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Table 2 Estimated unit costs for maternal and child health services in public healthcare facilities (in BDT)

From: Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis

Maternal and child healthcare services

Facility type

Average cost

Secondary level

Primary level

District Hospital (DH)

Maternal and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC)

Upazila Health Complex (UHC)

Upazila Health & Family Welfare Centre (UH&FWC)

Satellite Clinic and Expanded Programme on Immunization outreach (SC & EPI outreach)

Community Clinic (CC)

Antenatal care

431.0

259.0

434.7

298.0

154.5

236.5

341.4

Child-birth delivered normally

726.6

823.1

727.9

653.2

631.4

677.9

Child-birth delivered by C-section

4451.0

4589.3

4451.0

4453.6

Maternal postnatal care

1221.0

596.3

979.6

203.4

28.8

644.3

Postnatal care for child

125.6

136.8

125.5

90.5

84.3

107.5

Diarrhoea management

259.3

95.4

255.6

87.8

24.6

256.4

Acute respiratory infection management

1294.2

250.8

1211.3

36.7

34.7

1233.0

EPI vaccines

1923.1

1907.8

1926.8

1907.8

1906.0

1906.0

1873.8

  1. Source: The costs of the Bangladesh Essential Health Service Package: Fourth Health Population and Nutrition Sector Programme, 2018