Pediatrics
Starting from
$5,000
Up to $35,000 depending on centre
Typical duration
21–45 days
Including pre-operative work-up
Partner hospitals
2
Vetted for outcome data & accreditation
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World-class open heart surgery and minimally invasive catheter interventions for congenital heart defects in newborns, infants, and children. India and Israel offer internationally accredited pediatric cardiac centers with outcomes comparable to leading Western institutions at a fraction of the cost.
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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 | $8,000 | —chevron_right |
🇹🇷 Turkey Istanbul | $20,000 | +150%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.
Open-chest surgery, using a heart-lung bypass machine, to correct a structural congenital heart defect such as a ventricular or atrial septal defect (a "hole in the heart") — most commonly by closing the defect with a patch, or with sutures for smaller defects.
Typical recovery · 2–4 days PICU
Children typically spend 2–4 days in the pediatric cardiac ICU with temporary breathing and chest tubes before stepping down to a regular cardiac ward; total hospital stay is usually 1–2 weeks. A further 3–4 weeks of recovery at home is generally needed before resuming normal activity, and most children need at least one follow-up echocardiogram in the following months.
India
$6,000–$9,000
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
A thin catheter is guided through a blood vessel (usually in the groin) into the heart to diagnose or treat a defect without open surgery — for example widening a narrowed valve with a balloon (balloon valvuloplasty) or closing a hole with an implanted device, most suited to defects with a favorable size and location.
Typical recovery · Overnight stay
Most children go home the same day or after one overnight stay for monitoring; normal activity generally resumes within about three days, though high-contact sports are usually restricted for 5–7 days. A follow-up echocardiogram is typically scheduled to confirm the device or valve result.
India
$3,500–$6,000
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
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A complex open-heart operation for transposition of the great arteries — a defect where the aorta and pulmonary artery are connected to the wrong heart chambers — in which the two vessels are surgically switched back to their correct positions along with reimplantation of the coronary arteries, usually performed within the first weeks of life.
Typical recovery · 5–11 days PICU
This is major neonatal heart surgery: typical PICU stay is around 5–11 days and total hospital stay commonly runs 2–3 weeks, occasionally longer if complications such as need for temporary dialysis or ECMO support arise. Survival outcomes at experienced centers are strong (over 95% at 10 years in published series), but lifelong cardiology follow-up is required to monitor the reconstructed vessels and valve function.
India
$6,500–$15,000
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
A staged palliative operation for children born with only one functioning heart ventricle (single-ventricle physiology), in which the veins returning blood from the body are connected directly to the pulmonary artery, allowing blood to flow to the lungs without being pumped by a second ventricle. It is usually the final stage of a multi-surgery pathway that began in infancy (after earlier procedures such as a Norwood or Glenn operation), typically performed between ages 2 and 5.
Typical recovery · 1–2 weeks
Hospital stay is typically 1–2 weeks, including an initial PICU period, though this can be longer if fluid drainage around the lungs (a common early complication) takes time to resolve. Fontan physiology is a lifelong condition, not a cure — patients need lifelong specialist cardiology follow-up to monitor for arrhythmias, blood clots, Fontan-associated liver disease, and other long-term complications, and some eventually require further intervention.
India
$6,500–$9,000
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
Hyderabad, India
Rainbow Children's Hospitals is India's foremost dedicated pediatric, women's, and fertility care hospital chain, operating 24 hospitals with 2,400+ beds and 1,300+ doctors across Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal, and Rajahmundry. Headquartered in Hyderabad, the group has delivered 2 lakh+ babies and served 12.5 lakh+ patients across 40+ clinical specialties. Its child care centres of excellence cover general paediatrics, neonatal ICU, paediatric cardiology, haematology and oncology, nephrology, neurosurgery, and bone marrow transplantation. The women's care programme spans obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy, fetal medicine, painless delivery, and gynaecological surgery, while the fertility division — established in 2010 — offers IVF, ICSI, embryo transfer, cryopreservation, and donor treatments. Rainbow Hospitals received the Outlook Health Awards 2023 for excellence in paediatric and women's healthcare.
1,300+
Specialists
2,400+
Beds
Look for hospitals accredited by JCI (Joint Commission International) or NABH, which apply the same patient safety standards as top Western hospitals. Reputable pediatric cardiac centers in India, Israel, and Thailand publish their surgical volumes and outcomes — high-volume centers (200+ pediatric cardiac cases per year) consistently show lower complication rates. Our partner hospitals are JCI-accredited and our coordinators can share case outcome data so you can make an informed comparison.
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