Norwood procedure Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of the Norwood procedure 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 the Norwood procedure in Gurgaon is around $3,500 (about ₹3.32 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If the repair is planned and your child needs only a short stay in intensive care, 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 the repair is more complex or done in stages, or your child needs a longer stay in intensive care.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for the Norwood procedure, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Paediatric intensive care days
• Pre-operative scans and catheter studies
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

For hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the Norwood procedure is the first of a series of three operations, done within days of birth to create a new main artery so that the right side of the heart can supply the body.

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne explains that in HLHS the left heart is too underdeveloped to pump blood around the body, and a baby cannot survive the condition without treatment.

In the Norwood operation a new main artery is built from the pulmonary artery and the aortic arch is rebuilt, with blood reaching the lungs through a shunt or a tube from the right ventricle.

The Norwood is one of the highest-risk operations in children's heart surgery, and the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne states that up to 3 in 10 babies die between the first and second stages and about 4 in 10 do not survive to age 10.

Babies need close monitoring at home before the Glenn operation at about three months.

Flying home: UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance puts the usual wait after heart or chest surgery at 10 to 14 days, so expect to spend around three weeks in Gurgaon in total.

A Gurgaon quote for the Norwood procedure is normally made up of these items:

• Tests before the operation: echocardiogram, CT or cardiac MRI and any catheter study.
• Theatre time and perfusion: children's heart operations can run for many hours.
• Paediatric cardiac intensive care: normally the largest variable.
• Baby: condition at birth.
• Lung blood flow: a shunt or conduit.
• Intensive care: a long stay.
• Home monitoring: between stages.

Children's heart surgery costs depend on the child's age and condition, the intensive care stay and any further operations, so complex cases in Gurgaon can cost more than the range above.

Children's heart surgery needs a paediatric cardiac surgeon, a perfusion team and a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit together, so confirm all three when shortlisting hospitals in Gurgaon.

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 sits on the south-western edge of Delhi, a short road transfer from Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is the usual arrival point for international patients.