PEDIATRIC BRAIN SURGERY Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of paediatric brain surgery in Gurgaon typically ranges from $7,500 to $14,000 USD (about ₹7.11 lakh to ₹13.28 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for paediatric brain surgery in Gurgaon is around $9,000 (about ₹8.54 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If the operation is planned and you need only a short stay in neuro intensive care, your bill is likely to be closer to $7,500 (about ₹7.11 lakh). It is likely to be nearer $14,000 (about ₹13.28 lakh) if the surgery is more complex, special navigation or monitoring equipment or an implanted device is used, or you need longer in intensive care.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for paediatric brain surgery, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Neuro-intensive care days
• Implants or devices used
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Paediatric brain surgery includes brain operations in babies and children, most commonly to remove or sample a brain tumour, drain excess fluid or treat epilepsy.

The Brain Tumour Charity describes a craniotomy to remove all or part of a tumour, commonly lasting four to six hours, a burr-hole biopsy to take a small sample, a shunt to drain fluid and an Ommaya reservoir through which chemotherapy can be given.

Children normally go first to intensive care or a high dependency unit and then to a children's ward, and might need steroids and anti-seizure medicines.

Surgery at the back of the brain carries a small risk of posterior fossa syndrome, a temporary loss of speech.

Look for a dedicated paediatric neurosurgery team, children's intensive care and therapists who work with children, and note that the charity advises avoiding flying for about three months after brain surgery.

Flying home: UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance treats 7 days after brain or nerve surgery as the shortest wait, and neurosurgeons often ask for longer.

A Gurgaon quote for paediatric brain surgery is normally made up of these items:

• Scans before the operation: MRI, CT or an angiogram.
• Theatre, navigation and monitoring: including nerve monitoring when it is used.
• Days in neuro intensive care: after the operation is over.
• Operation: tumour, shunt or epilepsy.
• Children's intensive care: after surgery.
• Further treatment: chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
• Therapy: for recovery and learning.

Brain and nerve surgery costs depend on complexity, intensive care and any devices used, so complex cases in Gurgaon can cost more than the range above.

Gurgaon's larger hospitals provide neurosurgery with neuro-intensive care and, in some units, intraoperative imaging or nerve monitoring, so ask which your operation will involve.

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.