Temporal Lobectomy Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of temporal lobectomy 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 temporal lobectomy 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 temporal lobectomy, 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

A temporal lobectomy takes away the part of the temporal lobe of the brain where seizures begin, for people whose epilepsy has not been controlled by medicines.

Epilepsy Action says surgery is considered when two or more epilepsy medicines have not stopped seizures, and assessment can take months, including five to seven days of video EEG, MRI and neuropsychology tests.

These tests show where seizures begin and whether that area can be taken out safely.

Epilepsy Action states that about half of people who have temporal lobe surgery become seizure-free and can gradually stop medicines, whereas others have fewer or milder seizures.

Memory can worsen, and word-finding issues can follow surgery on the left side; it notes about five days on the ward and two to three months off work.

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 temporal lobectomy 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.
• Assessment: video EEG, MRI and memory tests.
• Extent of surgery: and side of the brain.
• Length of stay: about five days.
• Follow-up: medicine review over years.

Brain and spine treatment costs depend on complexity, intensive care and any devices, 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.

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.