Pollicization Surgery Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of pollicization surgery 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 pollicization surgery in Gurgaon is around $3,500 (about ₹3.32 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If a standard implant is used and you stay in a shared room, 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 a specialised implant is used, both sides are treated, it is a repeat operation or you choose a private room.

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

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Implants, plates or screws
• Physiotherapy
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

In pollicization, a surgeon moves and reshapes a child's index finger so that it works as a thumb, for children born with no usable thumb.

The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) explains that it is offered when the thumb is absent or badly underdeveloped (thumb hypoplasia), and occasionally after a thumb has been lost through injury.

HSS describes a usual minimum age of about 18 months, ideally before preschool, with the index finger shortened, rotated into the thumb position and its muscles and tendons rearranged.

The operation takes under two hours and the hand stays in a cast for about four weeks, followed, as HSS describes, by therapy twice a week for about two months and a night splint.

The new thumb grows with the hand, and risks include stiffness, length issues, scarring and infection, whereas loss of the thumb is rare.

Flying home: aviation guidance sets no single wait for bone and joint operations, but leg surgery makes clots on long flights more likely, so ask how to prevent them; UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance suggests 24 to 48 hours after a plaster cast.

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

• Tests before the operation: X-rays, other scans and an anaesthetic check.
• Theatre and anaesthetic: charged mainly by operating time.
• Implant choice: brand and type of joint, plate or screws.
• Rehabilitation: physiotherapy on the ward and once you leave.
• Child: age and hand anatomy.
• Children's anaesthesia: and stay.
• Cast: for about four weeks.
• Hand therapy: for about two months.

Ask each Gurgaon hospital for an itemised estimate showing any implant, surgeon, theatre, stay and hand therapy or physiotherapy, so offers can be compared fairly.

Orthopaedic departments in Gurgaon cover joint replacement, arthroscopy and trauma, usually with in-house physiotherapy so that patients start moving soon after 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.

Gurgaon was officially renamed Gurugram by the Haryana government in 2016, so hospital letters, maps and taxi apps may use either name.