Termination of pregnancy for patients travelling from Kolhapur

What you are most likely worried about

Not the procedure. The talk. Kolhapur, like most cities of its size, is a place where families, workplaces and neighbourhoods overlap, and where a single sighting can travel.

Your identity is protected by law, and protected here in practice. Nothing about your visit is written where another person can see it, discussed outside the consulting room, or shared with anybody — not your family, not your husband or partner, not your employer, not somebody who telephones asking after you. Our staff are trained over years to be non-judgemental, and gossip is a trained discipline here: actively stopped, not merely disapproved of. Privacy is designed into how the visit runs rather than promised in a policy.

If you are unmarried, you are completely entitled to this care and it is completely lawful. You need nobody's permission but your own — not a husband's, not a partner's, not your parents'. Many of the women we see are unmarried and most have never been admitted anywhere before. You will be welcomed and supported through the whole visit, from the first phone call to the journey home.

Why patients from Kolhapur come to Goa for this

Partly the distance, which puts the visit outside the reach of anyone who knows you. Partly because it is one journey and one building: the scan, the assessment, the certification, the procedure and the follow-up advice all happen in the same place on the same day, rather than being spread between a scan centre, a laboratory and a clinic. And partly because the journey itself stops being an obstacle once someone else is driving.

What happens when you get here

An ectopic pregnancy is a separate emergency

Sometimes the scan finds a pregnancy growing outside the womb, usually inside a fallopian tube. That is an ectopic pregnancy, and it needs to be said plainly: it is not a termination of pregnancy. It is a different medical condition and it is an emergency. A pregnancy cannot continue in a tube, and the surgery that treats it is done to protect your life, under entirely different considerations. Finding it in time is one of the reasons the scan comes before anything else.

Why sooner is better

Earlier in a pregnancy this is simpler for you: more methods remain available, less intervention is needed, and you recover more quickly. As the weeks go by the choices narrow and what is left is a larger undertaking. The MTP Act sets the outer limits and we will tell you exactly where you stand within them — but the reason not to put the journey off is a clinical one.

What it will cost

Telephone us with a recent ultrasound and we can give you a close estimate. It remains an estimate until you are examined, because nobody can price an assessment that has not happened. On arrival our own certified doctors examine you and repeat the investigations, so the exact situation and gestation are known.

Only then are you given a precise, itemised cost — hospital, medical, pharmacy and laboratory, each stated separately — and that becomes a promised package in rupees. Hospital fees are taken in full in advance and the figure does not move at the end. The figure you are given is the figure you pay.

How to reach us from Kolhapur

• By road — this is the route that works. Kolhapur to Goa is roughly five hours by car or bus, depending on the road and the ghat section. It is a comfortable day out and back.
• Better still, let us drive. Our car service covers anywhere in Goa and the border states, and Maharashtra is one of them. We collect you in Kolhapur, bring you to the hospital and take you home again afterwards, free of cost. If the journey was the thing stopping you, it is now not the thing stopping you.
• Not by train. There is no useful direct rail link between Kolhapur and Goa; any train route means changing and doubling the time. We would rather tell you that than let you discover it at a junction.
• Not by air. A flight makes no sense over this distance.

Road times vary with the season and the traffic on the ghats, so allow a margin — or let us take care of it.

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Before the journey

• WhatsApp us the date of your last menstrual period and any scan you already have, so we can tell you what to expect before you set out.
• Send any blood reports as well; it shortens the day here.
• Tell us if you would like the car, and from where in Kolhapur.
• Ask whether the follow-up check can be arranged without a second journey.

See medical (pill) termination, surgical termination, or the full abortion services overview.

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.