Estimating the economic and social consequences for patients diagnosed with human African trypanosomiasis in Muchinga, Lusaka and Eastern Provinces of Zambia (2004–2014)

Table 3 Patients’ costs incurred during hospitalisation

Type of expenditure	Total spent by whole patient cohort (US$)	Number of respondents spending on that category	Percentage of the whole patient cohort	Average spent per patient (US$)^a
Transport	2980.1	30	47	99.3
Medication	504.1	6	9	84.0
Meals	1729.3	26	41	66.5
Washing paste	80.3	12	19	6.7
Food	117.6	8	13	14.7
Total	5411.3	33	52	164.0

^a Average of those patients who spent money on this category, not of the whole patient cohort

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