ICL Surgery Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of ICL surgery in Gurgaon typically ranges from $1,900 to $7,000 USD (about ₹1.80 lakh to ₹6.64 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for ICL surgery in Gurgaon is around $3,500 (about ₹3.32 lakh). 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 $1,900 (about ₹1.80 lakh). It is likely to be nearer $7,000 (about ₹6.64 lakh) if a specialised lens or graft is used, both eyes are treated or advanced equipment is needed.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for ICL 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

In ICL (implantable collamer lens) surgery, a thin lens is slipped into the eye just in front of your own lens, correcting short sight, long sight or astigmatism with no eye tissue taken away.

An ICL is commonly chosen by people with strong prescriptions or with corneas too thin for laser surgery, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust says that keeping the natural lens is why it is called phakic lens implantation.

Measurements of the eye confirm there is room for the lens before surgery is booked.

Imperial describes a 2 to 3 mm opening at the edge of the cornea through which the folded lens is placed behind the iris, and the majority of people go back to work the following day, with a check about a week later.

Risks include too much or too little correction, haloes and glare, cataract, raised eye pressure, infection and corneal swelling, and eye pain, haloes with nausea or blurred vision need urgent care.

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 ICL 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 type: standard or toric.
• Eyes treated: one or both, and timing.
• Pre-surgery tests: eye measurements.
• Follow-up: checks in the first weeks.

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.

Where a Gurgaon hospital has an international patient desk, ask whether it can issue the letter for your e-Medical visa and help with airport pickup, interpreters and a place to stay nearby.