FAQs on Medical Tourism in India

IndiCure Health Tours chooses to partner with and offers operations and procedures at only selected few hospitals in India. The various parameters that guide our choice of partners to ensure the quality of services are as follows:

• Medical facility is certified in line with industry standards, fully equipped ICU facilities, and 24-hour nursing.
• Procedures are all done in fully equipped operating rooms with the necessary qualified staff and equipment
• Patients are kept in hospitals for a minimum of 24 hours after the operation, extension of the stay period depending upon the procedure performed.
• The medical facility has a dedicated cell for managing international patients.

All the hospitals that we deal with are either JCI accredited, which means the infrastructure and quality of care are at par with US standards, or have ISO, NABH, or reputed Indian accreditations. You can thus be assured that the hospitals you opt for while choosing medical tourism in India with IndiCure Health Tours offer good services.

The quality of the surgeons' skills and care services that our select hospitals offer in India are amongst the very best in the world. In effect, a medical tourist to India can expect high quality surgery, but at much more affordable prices.

The fact that pricing of healthcare services is so competitive in India is because of largely two reasons:

Low cost of endowment in India - Qualified doctors, surgeons, nursing staff, lower investment costs, and subsidies by the government to the private healthcare sector are more as compared to other countries

Favorable Exchange Rate - We have an exchange rate regime, which is favorable to India as compared to any western country, which makes it much cheaper for a westerner to have surgery in India (Below are indicative exchange rates that may not be currently applicable)

1 USD = 83.48 Indian rupees
1 GBP = 106.89 Indian rupees
1 Euro = 93.33 Indian rupees

IndiCure Health Tours offers end to end assistance during your medical trip to India. We not only chose and recommend best surgeons and top hospitals in India, but also help you throughout your surgery and stay in India.

We strongly urge our patient guests to ask all the questions that concern them most and only make the final decision once they are satisfied with the answers.

We at IndiCure extend patient ears to what you say and do our best to give you an unbiased opinion and always try to provide you with all the relevant information to the best of our knowledge and experience. We urge you to openly communicate with previous clients to make an informed choice.

IndiCure Health Tours offers a complete set of medical, stay and travel facilities for its patient guests. We help them with pre-operation consultations, admissions, transportation after discharge, hotel bookings etc to make it a seamless experience for our guests,

IndiCure is always ready to offer any technical or psychological support for its clients since it is a vulnerable time for them as they are away from home.

Post-operation, we are always available for any other services, consultations, and feedback about the experience at the medical facility and/or the surgeon, and assure you that they will be addressed as soon as possible. We are there to make sure that your medical travel to India is completely safe and hassle-free.

IndiCure Health Tours has its best surgeons and top hospitals in Mumbai and New Delhi / Gurugram. These cities are the biggest cities of India and boast of being the medical tourism hubs in India. We also collaborate with some select surgeons and hospitals in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

We restrict our partner surgeons and hospitals to bigger cities in India since these have better infrastructure and ecosystem for healthcare services, though at comparatively higher prices.

Most of our medical tourism patient guests comes from the Western and African countries. Among western countries, we welcome increasing number of patients from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Among African countries, we welcome our patient guests from Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc.

IndiCure Health Tours chooses to collaborate only with eminent medical experts in their respective fields to ensure the safety of our international patient guests. We only associate with surgeons who:

• Are qualified, certified, and registered specialists
• Are registered with the Indian Medical Council or a member of a specialist association - thus, adhering to the ethical codes of conduct as put forward by the council/ association
• Do not have any legal cases of malpractice against them
• Run private practices
• Are covered by medical insurance in India
• Have positive feedback from the past patients

After the surgery in India, you will be at the hospital, under the nursing care as appropriate to your surgical procedure. You will be in the hospital for a minimum of 24 hours after the operation (for most in-patient surgeries) and this may be extended depending on the procedure performed.

We will transfer you to a recuperation accommodation facility, which on your choice can be a serviced apartment with full facilities in a truly home environment, or a star-rated hotel of choice. We call or visit you daily during your stay ensuring that all your personal and post-operative needs are addressed.

We will transfer you for your post-operative consultations with the surgeon.

The cost savings for medical procedures abroad can vary greatly depending on the specific treatment you choose. Generally, you can expect to pay significantly less, often between 50% and 90% compared to prices in Western countries like the USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. These substantial reductions can even allow you to factor in travel expenses like flights, comfortable recovery in a nice hotel, and even some souvenirs, all while still saving money overall.

• You will be required to stay in India after the surgery for an appropriate period depending on the recuperative procedure, thus ensuring that you are on the correct healing path.
• Once you are back in your home country and have something to consult with your treating surgeon, we will arrange for a mutually convenient time for a virtual consultation.
• We urge you to keep in touch with IndiCure once back home, as your continued healing process is important to us. We use email as effective feedback and follow-up system.

IndiCure Health Tours is utmost selective in choosing partner surgeons and medical facilities to make sure that chances of complications are minimized in the first place.

We are always a call or an e-mail away from you for any communication. With our access to medical and support facilities, we will try to mobilize the required resources/ facilities to alleviate your concerns to the best of our abilities. Thus, we vow to be your 'professional friend' as well, in a city away from home, helping you navigate India and Indian healthcare system. We encourage you to ask as many questions to the treating surgeon, to identify the risks involved with the procedures, and make an informed choice thereafter.

Our partner hospitals ensure that patients are kept in hospitals for a minimum of 24 hours post the operation (for most of in-patient surgeries), as 24 hours is the time when medical complications can occur.

We also recommend you to stay in the city of surgery for a minimum period as suggested by the surgeon ensuring that you have adequate postoperative consultation with the surgeon.

• Elective surgery or any possible medical complication arising from having an elective procedure is not covered by any of the insurers worldwide.
• For other medical procedures, we advise you to get authorization from your medical insurance provider before traveling to India - we will be glad to forward you the medical codes or any other necessary documents.
• We do advise you to avail regular comprehensive travel insurance while buying your ticket to India.
• We only use surgeons who have adequate medical insurance and the necessary malpractice coverage in order to operate on our overseas clients and medical tourists from around the world

• The medical facilities that IndiCure Health Tours associates with follow strict international guidelines and test the samples as There are additional precautions for HIV/AIDS patients in place as per protocols that ensure safety of patients.
• Moreover, Indian blood donors are not paid to donate their blood and it is only a voluntary activity.

When you choose IndiCure Health Tours, we offer to service you right from the point you make an enquiry until you are back home and even thereafter.

We will plan your surgery and prepare a detailed itinerary including your appointments for the surgery (pre-operative and post-operative) and your stay or trips in India.

We will handle your bookings, arrange for your first “face-to-face” consultation, coordinate your subsequent schedule of appointments, and take care of most of your errands and concierge services as part of facilitation services of your medical trip to India.

Once back home, we encourage you to keep in touch with us, as your healing progress is important, and if at any stage you have any queries, we would like you to contact us, and we will respond accordingly.

Medical Visa

You would need a valid medical visa to enter India for surgery or other medical reasons, which can be obtained at the Indian embassy in your country. You can either obtain a tourist or medical visa to enter India. The Indian government has also started the facility of visas upon arrival for citizens of a few countries. You can check if you are eligible for a visa on arrival by visiting the website e-Tourist Visa.
A medical visa can be obtained by producing a letter from the treating doctor or the hospital stating the purpose of your visit.

Indian Weather

India is a big country and different parts of the country experience different weather and temperature in different seasons. While North India has extreme temperatures, West and South India is temperate. You need to know which part of the country you are visiting and what type of weather and temperatures to expect during that time. Your case manager will help you with that.

Preferred Attire

India is a traditionally conservative society. Women are advised to opt for long skirts or pants, while avoiding miniskirts and shorts, to ensure respectful and appropriate attire.

Indian Food

Indian food is quite different from the rest of the world. Not only does it taste very different, but it is cooked differently. The taste and smell of the food varies in different parts of the country and is as different as its culture. The only thing common in food across different parts is its spiciness. Whether it is a North Indian dish or a South India cuisine, spices are used generously. It is worthwhile to note that all the spices used have some or the other nutritional or medicinal properties.

Money and Costs

India is quite inexpensive compared to the Western countries and has a greatly favourable exchange rate. India is a paradise for shoppers. One gets a platter of options right from old bustling bazaars to sprawling shopping malls. The most popular items among visitors are antiques, handicrafts, leather articles, rugs and carpets, linen and fabrics, silk, and jewelry. It is easy to exchange money and credit cards are accepted in most places.