STUDYING THE CONSUMPTION PATTERN OF ENERGY CARRIERS BEFORE AND AFTER SUBSIDIARY REFORM PLAN IN SELECTED HOSPITALS OF KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES1

Subsidiary reform plan enforcement and growing prices of energy carriers will lead to difference in hospitals costs. This study aimed to determine the energy consumption pattern before and after subsidiary reform plan enforcement from 2007 to 2013 in selected hospitals of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences. This study is applied and sectional- analytic research and is conducted in 2014. Study population consists of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences hospitals including Tohid, Besat and Qods hospitals that were studied by census. Document review in terms of costs and consumption in a six-year period was the basis for data collection and data was entered into Excel software and independent t-test and Minitab 17 software were used for statistical analysis. Independent t-test showed that there is no significant difference in average monthly amount of gas consumption in three years before and after subsidiary reform plan of studied hospitals except Qods hospital (pvalue=0.414), (pvalue=0.516) and (pvalue=0.061). The average monthly payment of three hospitals was more compared to three years before and after subsidiary reform plan (pvalue = 0.000).we need a comprehensive and purposeful planning, training and cultural building of employees and officials on energy consumption and provide measures to hospitals according to subsidiary reform plan in order to meet the cost of energy carriers in health care centers and obtain energy consumption pattern through adapting predetermined standards.

Energy carriers, Hospitals, Kurdistan, Subsidiary reform plan