orchidopexy Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of orchidopexy in Gurgaon typically ranges from $620 to $6,000 USD (about ₹58,800 to ₹5.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for orchidopexy in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If your operation is planned, done by keyhole or a standard method, and you go home after a short stay, your bill is likely to be closer to $620 (about ₹58,800). It is likely to be nearer $6,000 (about ₹5.69 lakh) if you need open or robotic surgery, your condition is more complex, you stay longer or you choose a private room.

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

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Stents or catheters
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Orchidopexy is an operation, normally in young children, that brings an undescended testicle down into the scrotum and fixes it there.

Bringing the testicle into the scrotum makes it easier to examine in later life and may help fertility, so surgery is normally advised in early childhood if the testicle has not come down by itself.

University College London Hospitals (UCLH) says that the operation is done under general anaesthetic by open or keyhole surgery, sometimes in two stages about six months apart.

UCLH advises regular paracetamol or ibuprofen for at least the first day, with stitches dissolving over two to three weeks.

It advises no straddling toys for two weeks, no swimming for three weeks and no sport for three to four weeks, with a return to school after about a week.

Flying home: there is no aviation figure for this procedure, so book after the surgeon's review and ask how to lower clot risk on a long flight.

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

• Pre-operative tests: blood work, imaging and an anaesthetic assessment.
• Theatre and anaesthesia charges: mostly set by time in the operating room.
• Consultant fees: which differ from one hospital to the next.
• Type of operation: open, keyhole or robotic where there is a choice.
• Testicle position: groin or abdomen.
• Approach: open or keyhole.
• Stages: one or two for high testicles.
• Stay: normally a day case.

This is normally a short day-case procedure, so a Gurgaon estimate close to the upper figure above would be unusual; ask what the price includes.

Urology departments in Gurgaon's larger hospitals routinely provide endoscopic stone treatment and keyhole operations, and some offer robotic surgery.

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.