Personnel remuneration is the major expenditure, consuming 62% in urban and 39% in rural facilities of the total cost for treating moderate diarrhoea.
Across all 15 districts the proportion of the total expenditure on salaries and remuneration is 40%.
8 'Other' refers to expenditures apart from salaries and remuneration and includes expenditures for: non-salary administrative activities, program activities, civil works, drugs, and equipment.
Salaries and remuneration account for 40% of all public expenditure for health at the district level, with considerable variation between districts in the proportion of salaries contributed by central and district governments (Table 11).
The initial aim was to collect expenditure information using a functional classification that included salaries and remuneration, non-salary administrative activities, program activities, civil works, drugs, and equipment separately for the district health office, health centers, and hospitals.
We suggest specifying the proportion of personnel expenditures in the hospitals for prevention of blind expansion and reduction on the staff remuneration.
Though money was raised specifically for the renovation project, the players cast the lobby expenditure as a misappropriation of funds that might better be directed toward their remuneration and welfare.
However, we do know that the largest single item of expenditure at the hospital, health center and district health office level is for salaries and remuneration.
Despite the low levels of remuneration and very limited resources for transport, communication and uniforms, and the small proportion of total provincial health expenditure devoted to CBS (estimated to be less than 2%%), senior managers expressed uncertainty about the large amounts of money "signed off" in NGO contracts on an annual basis.
Central government funds account for 52% (see Table 9) of all public expenditure on health in the district; of these central government funds, 53% is for salaries and remuneration (see Table 11).
