Lung Transplant Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of a lung transplant in Gurgaon typically ranges from $30,000 to $45,000 USD (about ₹28.46 lakh to ₹42.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for a lung transplant in Gurgaon is around $35,000 (about ₹33.20 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If the donor is a living relative and recovery goes smoothly, your bill is likely to be closer to $30,000 (about ₹28.46 lakh). It is likely to be nearer $45,000 (about ₹42.69 lakh) if you need a longer stay in intensive care, treatment for rejection or care for complications.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for a lung transplant, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Donor tests and donor surgery
• Anti-rejection medicines after discharge
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

A lung transplant replaces one or both diseased lungs with healthy lungs from a deceased donor, for people with advanced lung disease when other treatments no longer help.

A lung transplant may be considered for advanced lung disease including COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension, in selected people fit enough for major surgery.

NHS Blood and Transplant says that it can help selected people with lung failure but requires strong medicines that suppress the immune system.

NHS Blood and Transplant states that about 80 in 100 people are alive at one year and 52 to 59 in 100 at five years, with the risk of death highest in the first months.

Patients normally spend one to three days in intensive care, sometimes longer, with a total stay of about two to three weeks and frequent clinic appointments at first.

Flying home: transplant patients stay near the transplant unit for close monitoring in the first weeks, and the transplant team decides when it is safe to fly.

A Gurgaon quote for a lung transplant is normally made up of these items:

• Donor and recipient work-up: tests for both people.
• Approval paperwork: authorisation committee steps.
• ICU and isolation: after the transplant.
• Operation: single or double lung.
• Assessment: fitness and other organs.
• Intensive care and stay: commonly two to three weeks.
• Anti-rejection medicines: for life.

Transplant costs depend on donor tests, the operation, intensive care, anti-rejection medicines and follow-up, so it is worth asking the Gurgaon hospital exactly what its package includes.

Transplant programmes in Gurgaon operate under India's national transplant law, so a living donation needs authorisation committee approval, and the transplant coordinator explains the paperwork.

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.