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Accepted: 21 October 2024

First Online: 2 December 2024

Declarations

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: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

: This study was conducted by Regional Resource Hub-HTAIn and IIPH-Hyderabad which is funded by Department of Health Research under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India.

: The data used in this study were extracted from literature and costs were extracted from the National Health System Cost Database for India (NHSCD). ()

: The data analysis for this study was conducted using Microsoft Excel. The Excel files, including all relevant data sets and analysis formulas, are available as supplementary material.

: Conceptualization: Lipika Nanda, Ambarish Dutta, Sarit Kumar Rout; Methodology: Ambarish Dutta, Sarit Kumar Rout, Amatullah Sana Qadeer, Naline Gandhi, Ananda Meher; Formal analysis and investigation: Amatullah Sana Qadeer, Naline Gandhi, Ananda Meher, Abhilash Patra, Jennifer Rachel, Winnie Paulson; Writing—original draft preparation: Amatullah Sana Qadeer, Winnie Paulson, Ananda Meher, Ambarish Dutta; Writing—review and editing: Nirupama AY, Sarit Kumar Rout, Amatullah Sana Qadeer; Resources: Lipika Nanda; Supervision: Lipika Nanda. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from Institutional Ethics Committee at Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, India (ID: IIPHH/TRCIEC/275/2020)

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