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 .