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Table 5 Direct and indirect costs of the Lactarium

From: How much does a liter of donor human milk cost? Cost analysis of operating a human milk bank in Italy

 

Direct costs (€)

Indirect costs (€)

Total costs

Staff

Medical consumables

Amortization

Maintenance

Total

Other consumables

General costs

Amortization rooms

Staff

Total

Feeding-bottle of pasteurized DHM

1.59

1.02

0.11

0.02

2.73

0.01

0.50

0.12

0.36

0.99

3.72

Liter of pasteurized DHM (50 mL single-use feeding bottles, (n = 20)

31.73

20.33

2.15

0.41

54.63

0.30

10.08

2.31

7.12

19.81

74.43

  1. DHM donor human milk