For patients in Delhi considering termination of pregnancy in Goa

Nobody at home will know you were here

Delhi is a huge city, but for many people it is also a small world of colleagues, extended family, neighbours and community networks that overlap in ways that make total privacy hard, even at a good local hospital. Travelling to Goa puts the visit somewhere none of that network reaches, and a return flight is realistic within a few days for most patients. This is not a comment on Delhi's own hospitals — it is simply a choice some patients make for distance, the same way others prefer to stay close to 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. 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, wherever in India she lives. 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. If a flight has to be arranged around it, arrange it early rather than late. The stages the MTP Act sets out are on their own page — the law is the same for you in Delhi as it is here.

Planning the trip from Delhi

This is a longer trip than a local visit, so a little preparation matters:

• Call or WhatsApp first and tell us the date of your last menstrual period and any scan you already have. We will tell you what to expect before you book anything.
• Send existing reports by WhatsApp so less time is spent repeating tests once you arrive.
• Ask about the follow-up. A follow-up visit confirms everything is complete — we will tell you whether that is realistic to combine with your trip or needs to be arranged separately near home.
• Build in a buffer day before your flight back, rather than travelling the same evening.

See medical (pill) termination and surgical termination for what each route involves.

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 — which matters when the treatment is only part of what you are budgeting.

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.

Getting about once you land

The flight is your own arrangement, but once you are in Goa the hospital's own cars are yours to use, free of cost — from the airport, from wherever you are staying, or from anywhere else in the state, and from across the border in Karnataka and Maharashtra too. You do not need to arrange a taxi, and you do not need anyone to come with you.

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.