Cataract Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of cataract surgery in Gurgaon typically ranges from $310 to $1,100 USD (about ₹29,400 to ₹1.04 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for cataract surgery in Gurgaon is around $600 (about ₹56,900). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If one eye is treated with a standard lens or technique, your bill is likely to be closer to $310 (about ₹29,400). It is likely to be nearer $1,100 (about ₹1.04 lakh) if a specialised lens or graft is used, both eyes are treated or advanced equipment is needed.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for cataract surgery, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• The lens, implant or graft
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Cataract surgery takes away the cloudy natural lens of the eye and replaces it with a clear artificial lens, normally by phacoemulsification as a day case under local anaesthetic.

A cataract is clouding of the natural lens, normally developing gradually with age and causing blurred or dim vision, glare and difficulty driving at night, and surgery is considered when it affects daily life.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust says that cataracts are normally taken out by phacoemulsification, breaking the lens up with ultrasound through a small wound and fitting an artificial lens, normally as a day case.

The Hull leaflet reports loss of sight or of the eye in under 0.03%, swelling at the back of the eye in about 1 to 5% and clouding behind the lens in 5 to 30% within five years, which is treated with a quick laser.

Eye drops are used for a number of weeks, and glasses are normally checked once the eye has settled.

Flying home: UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance puts the wait after surgery inside the eye at roughly a week, once the surgeon has examined the eye.

A Gurgaon quote for cataract surgery is normally made up of these items:

• Measurements and eye scans: taken ahead of the operation.
• Lens, implant or graft: a standard or a premium choice.
• Eye surgeon's fee: which varies between centres.
• Lens: standard or premium.
• Technique: phaco or small-incision.
• Eyes treated: one or both, and timing.
• Follow-up: drops and a glasses check.

Eye surgery estimates in Gurgaon commonly list the lens or implant, surgeon, theatre, medicines and follow-up appointments separately, so compare like with like.

Eye care in Gurgaon is offered by hospital ophthalmology departments and by dedicated eye hospitals with separate clinics for cataract, cornea, glaucoma and retina.

NABH, the hospital accreditation board of the Quality Council of India whose standards carry ISQua accreditation, sets the national benchmark for hospitals, and its online directory shows whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is still current.

Gurgaon is part of Delhi NCR, where India's first hospital to gain Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation did so in 2005, and JCI publishes a searchable list of the organisations it currently accredits.

Gurgaon was officially renamed Gurugram by the Haryana government in 2016, so hospital letters, maps and taxi apps may use either name.