Economic burden of drug wastage
All drugs used in our study were
procured from the NGO, and their costing was noted from the hospital
pharmacy. The total expenditure for drug procurement was 110143.1 INR
(1328.7 USD), out of which 31929.95 INR (385.19 USD) was the cost of
wasted drugs, amounting to 28.98% of the economic loss as shown inTable 4 .