As described previously, this fee only covers recurrent cost of the admission service, SIS office, triage, CRED (vaccination office) and the ANC office, excluding salaries.
In Ghana, as in many countries, user fees fund much of the recurrent non-salary costs of care.
*Others mainly refers to donation revenue, recurrent expenses of medical-aid, and health administration fees.
Instead of merely covering some of the recurrent non-salary costs of services, as user fees used to, it is now gradually expanding to fund other functions.
The fees were estimated in 2003 to cover recurrent cost of services and assuming that personnel cost were covered by the ministry of health.
For hundreds of thousands of people in and around the town, a poor region that has suffered recurrent ethnic violence, the money earned by local athletes pays for school fees, clinics or cash support for local farmers.
The SIS transfers funds on a fee-for-service basis to the regional health offices to cover recurrent cost (excluding salaries) of pre-specified packages of interventions.
Other prior funding streams and access to resources will certainly influence PBF results, such as available input-based funding for recurrent costs or medical supplies like drugs, as well as the volume and uses of user fees.
Following the general economic reforms instituted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1985, the Ghana Ministry of Health (MOH) introduced significant user fees in public health facilities with the aim of recovering at least 15percentt of recurrent operating costs.
Patients who were currently diagnosed with genital warts, aged 18 years or older and provided informed consent (no participation fee applied) were eligible for this study regardless of their gender or whether they were an incident or recurrent case.
