Non-communicable disease clinic start-up costs
| Cost component | Total cost (US$) |
| Construction of NCD clinic | 12 633 |
| Baseline NCD training | 10 824 |
| Training cost per nurse | 5412 |
| Transportation | 500 |
| Accommodation | 1071 |
| Food | 3000 |
| Training materials | 330 |
| Trainer fees | 466 |
| Communication fees | 45 |
| Clinic equipment and supplies | 24 519 |
| Furniture | 1495 |
| BP cuff, patient scale, peak flow meter, glucometer | 476 |
| Ultrasound equipment* | 19 500 |
| INR machine† | 490 |
| HbA1c POC machine‡ | 275 |
| Computers/printer | 1471 |
| Charts/office supplies | 812 |
| Butaro NCD start-up cost | 47 976 |
*Cardiac ultrasound purchased was SonoSite MicroMaxx (SonoSite, Bothell, Washington, USA) portable ultrasound machine (US$15 500) with 5–1 MHz and 8–4 MHz probes for adult and paediatric studies (US$3000). Price of 6000 denotes price of hand-held Lumify Ultrasound system (Phillips, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).
†INR machine used Is Coagucheck Pro II (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA).
‡Point-of-care HbA1c machine is SD A1c Care (SD BIOSENSOR, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea).
BP, blood pressure; HbA1c, haemoglobin A1c; INR, international normalised ratio; NCD, non-communicable disease; POC, point of care.