Extracapsular Cataract Extraction Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of extracapsular cataract extraction 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 extracapsular cataract extraction 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 extracapsular cataract extraction, 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

Extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) takes away the cloudy lens in one piece through a longer cut than modern small-incision methods, and is still used for some very hard cataracts.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust describes phacoemulsification, which breaks the lens up with ultrasound through very small cuts, as today's standard method, whereas ECCE needs a longer cut and stitches and heals more gradually.

Manual small-incision cataract surgery (MSICS) is a modern extracapsular technique widely used in India, and a Cochrane review found vision with glasses similar to phaco at lower cost, although the evidence was of low quality.

Healing takes longer than after phaco, stitches can cause astigmatism, and eye drops are used for a number of weeks.

Glasses are normally updated once the eye has fully 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 extracapsular cataract extraction 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.
• Technique: ECCE, small-incision or phaco.
• Lens implant: standard or premium.
• Stitches: required with ECCE.
• 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.

Haryana adopted the national Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 in 2018, starting with larger private hospitals, so you can ask a Gurgaon hospital for its registration under the Act.