Human resource requirement has been estimated based on the
predicted quantum of work, and number of hours of work
available per day with each category of staff. Time available for
work as in the previous report was used in our analysis [20]. This
was further validated with IPHS norms. Current salary structure
of different staff members obtained from a survey of four private
hospitals in Chandigarh - which had maximum patient load - was
multiplied with the number of staff members to obtain total salary
expenditure for the hospital. Lack of adequate monetary incentives
has been cited as one of the major reason for supply side shortfall
in public sector [12,13,15]. So we collected data from private
sector hospitals alone, in order to estimate cost of human
resources, as we believe that in order to retain and induce
performance from health workforce, it is important to pay
equivalent of market prices (Text S1).