Neonatology
Starting from
$2,000
Up to $20,000 depending on centre
Typical duration
14–120 days
Including pre-operative work-up
Partner hospitals
3
Vetted for outcome data & accreditation
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Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units provide comprehensive life support for premature infants born as early as 24 weeks gestation, offering ventilation, parenteral nutrition, and continuous monitoring by specialist neonatologists. Families travel for access to tertiary NICU facilities with lower daily costs and highly trained teams that rival leading Western centres.
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Average coordinated costs across our partner centres. Final pricing depends on clinical complexity and chosen hospital.
| Country | Avg. cost | vs. cheapest |
|---|---|---|
🇮🇳 India New Delhi · Chennai · Bengaluru · Hyderabad · Mumbai · Kochi | $3,000 | —chevron_right |
🇹🇷 Turkey Istanbul | $8,000 | +167%chevron_right |
Costs are indicative estimates and vary by procedure specifics, hospital, and clinical complexity. Request a personalised estimate for your specific case.
This treatment category covers several different operations with different levels of invasiveness, recovery times, and costs. The country averages above blend all of them together — use the breakdown below for a more realistic, procedure-specific estimate.
Comprehensive life support for babies born extremely preterm (before 28 weeks), covering respiratory support (from CPAP to mechanical ventilation), thermoregulation in an incubator, infection prevention, and close management of the complications common at this gestational age. This is ongoing intensive care, not a single procedure, and its intensity is highest in the first days to weeks after birth.
Typical recovery · Typically 8–16+ weeks NICU stay, scaled to gestational age
Duration depends heavily on how early the baby was born: infants born at 22–25 weeks often remain in the NICU until close to their original due date (commonly 3–4 months), while those born at 27–28 weeks typically need a shorter, though still multi-week, stay. Length of stay is also extended by complications such as ventilator-associated infection, so any quoted range is a guide, not a guarantee.
India
$300–$800/day (Level III NICU daily rate)
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Intravenous feeding that delivers a complete nutrition formula directly into the bloodstream (usually via a PICC line), used when a baby's immature digestive system cannot yet safely process milk feeds. It is standard for infants born under about 32 weeks or below roughly 1,500g, and is introduced within the first two days of life.
Typical recovery · Typically first 1–3 weeks of the NICU stay
TPN is a bridge, not an endpoint: as the baby's gut matures, milk feeds are introduced and gradually increased while TPN is tapered down. Roughly two-thirds of infants born under 31 weeks who start TPN are fully off it by around 14 days of age, though extremely preterm or unwell babies may need it longer.
India
$100–$250/day (added to the base NICU rate for TPN formulation, pharmacy compounding, and line management)
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Continuous electronic monitoring of heart rate, breathing, oxygen saturation, and temperature, with staff on hand to respond immediately to apnoea, desaturation, or other warning signs. This underpins every other aspect of NICU care rather than being a discrete treatment, and its intensity tapers as the baby becomes more stable.
Typical recovery · Continuous throughout the NICU stay, tapering as stability improves
Monitoring remains continuous for as long as the baby is in intensive or high-dependency care, and is only stepped down once the baby sustains stable breathing, heart rate, and temperature without frequent intervention — typically shifting to lighter, intermittent monitoring in the final phase before discharge.
India
$150–$400/day (monitoring and nursing component of the NICU rate)
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Continuous or prolonged skin-to-skin contact between parent and baby, combined with support for exclusive breastfeeding and close developmental follow-up. It is introduced as soon as the baby is clinically stable enough to be handled, often while still needing some monitoring, and continues through step-down care.
Typical recovery · Introduced once stable; continues through step-down care and after discharge
Kangaroo care typically begins in the final, lower-acuity phase of the NICU stay and is encouraged to continue at home after discharge. Sustained skin-to-skin contact (WHO guidance recommends as many hours a day as possible) is associated with better temperature control, fewer infections, improved growth, and stronger parent-infant bonding, alongside the standard developmental and hearing/vision follow-up all NICU graduates receive.
India
$80–$200/day (step-down / lower-acuity nursery rate)
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Cost ranges are indicative estimates for international patients and vary with implant choice, number of levels treated, surgeon, and hospital. Request a personalised quote for your specific case.
Clinical detail: AAOS OrthoInfo, Mayo Clinic Health System, Cleveland Clinic. Cost ranges cross-checked across multiple independent medical-tourism sources per country where marked; ranges flagged "pending verification" could not be independently confirmed at the time of writing.
Faridabad, India
Asia's largest private hospital — 2,600 beds, 64 operation theatres, 81 specialties on a 130-acre campus in Delhi NCR. NABH & NABL accredited. Centres of excellence in oncology, cardiac surgery, BMT, organ transplantation, neurosciences, and IVF.
800+
Specialists
2,600+
Beds
Bannerghatta Road · Bengaluru, India
Fortis Hospital on Bannerghatta Road is a 276-bed multi-specialty tertiary care centre in South Bangalore, established in 2006 and ranked #1 in India for medical tourism by the Medical Travel Quality Alliance. The first hospital in Karnataka to achieve JCI accreditation — earned 5+ times — it houses 150+ senior specialists across cardiac surgery, oncology, organ transplantation, neurosciences, and robotic procedures in a Level I Trauma Centre.
150+
Specialists
276+
Beds
Chennai, India
Apollo Hospitals Chennai — India's first private hospital (1983), home to South East Asia's first Proton Therapy Centre and Asia Pacific's first CyberKnife system. JCI & NABH accredited. Specialises in oncology, cardiac surgery, organ transplantation, and neurosciences.
650+
Specialists
700+
Beds
In most cases, the premature infant is admitted to the NICU at birth in the destination country, with the mother already travelling before or close to delivery. Medical transfers of stable premature infants between NICUs are possible with dedicated neonatal transport teams, but are only arranged when clinically safe. Our coordinators work with your referring physician to plan the safest pathway, including aeromedical transfer if required.
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