Termination of pregnancy for patients travelling from Karwar

Nobody in Karwar will know you were here

Karwar is a close-knit town, and for many patients that is exactly the problem: a smaller community makes it hard to keep something this personal to yourself, even where there is nothing wrong with the local hospital or pharmacy. The short trip to Vaddem, Vasco-da-Gama puts the visit somewhere nobody you know is likely to see you. The MTP Act is a national law, so your entitlements and your confidentiality are precisely the same here as they are at home.

Once you are here, privacy is designed into how the visit runs — who you meet, where you wait, what is written down and where it is kept. Nothing about your visit is discussed outside the room or shared with anyone: not your family, not your employer, not anyone who telephones asking. The staff are trained over years to be non-judgemental. Nobody will look at you a certain way, and nobody will ask you to explain or justify yourself. Gossip is not something we hope will not happen; it is a discipline the whole team is trained in and held to.

Many of the women treated here are unmarried — entirely lawful, and it changes nothing at all about the care you are given. For a great many patients this is the first time inside a hospital at all: you are welcomed here, not processed, and someone stays with you through the whole visit rather than only through the procedure.

The decision is yours, and only yours

You do not need your husband's permission, your partner's permission, or your parents' permission. For an adult woman the law asks for her own consent and no one else's. Your identity is protected by law, and protected here in practice.

What happens here

Sooner is simpler

Earlier in pregnancy the treatment is smaller: less intervention, safer, quicker to recover from, and more of the options still open — including the medication route, which stops being suitable early on. When a journey is involved it matters even more, because an earlier treatment is more often a single day trip. The stages the MTP Act sets out are on their own page.

The figure you are given is the figure you pay

Tell us roughly how many weeks you are on the phone and we can usually give you a close estimate — it rests on a recent ultrasound, though, and cannot account for an examination that has not happened yet. When you arrive, our own certified doctors assess and examine you and repeat the investigations, and only then do you get a precise, itemised cost: hospital, medical, pharmacy and laboratory. That becomes a promised package in rupees. Hospital fees are taken in full in advance, and the figure does not move at the end — worth knowing before you set out from another state.

The consent form protects you

A termination requires the consent form prescribed by the government to be signed, and that form exists only at premises licensed for this — a pharmacy may not dispense the medicines without it. It records that the decision was yours, taken with a doctor who had examined you, at a place licensed to do it.

Free pickup and drop, across the border included

The hospital runs its own cars. We collect you from Karwar — and from anywhere else in Goa, and from across the border in Karnataka and Maharashtra — and bring you home again afterwards, free of cost. You do not need to arrange your own transport, and you do not need anyone to come with you if you would rather come alone. See the full abortion services overview for what happens at each stage.

How to reach us from Karwar

• By road — a short run across the border to Vaddem, Vasco-da-Gama, comfortably done there and back in a day.
• By train — the Konkan Railway takes about half an hour from Karwar to Madgaon, and Vaddem is a short drive from the station.
• Or let us come for you — the hospital's own car covers Karwar, free of cost, in both directions.

Train and road times change, so check before you set out — or simply let us arrange it.

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This page is for general education and is not personal medical advice. Treatment depends on your own examination and reports, so please speak to a doctor about your situation. We do not carry out or offer sex determination of any kind.