Table 4 Cost information for doing and not doing hearing screening for primary school children in Shiraz in 2020
Costs | Costs items | PPP $ |
|---|---|---|
Costs of Hearing Screening Program for primary school children | Capital (Equipment depreciation) | 0.51 |
Current (Personnel, Consumption and Overhead costs) | 4.41 | |
Total | 4.92 | |
Hearing loss diagnostic costs | Visit of the hearing screening audiologist | 2.21 |
Visit of audiologist | 6.43 | |
Visit of family physician | 5.01 | |
Visit of an ENT specialist | 9.94 | |
Comprehensive audiometric test + TM + AR | 16.40 | |
Total | 39.99 | |
Treatment costs for hearing loss | Ear micro-suction | 15.51 |
Pharmacotherapy | 3.88 | |
hearing aids | 5109.84 | |
Mean cost of ear surgeries | 112.10 | |
Cochlear implant | 4694.59 | |
Total | 9935.92 |