Treatment at hospitals in India: a guide for patients in Seychelles

The Indian medical visa

e-Medical Visa

Seychellois passport holders can apply for India's e-Medical Visa online. Seychelles is entry 142 on the official eligibility list. There is no visa fee, for the patient's medical visa or for an attendant's. That is unusual — most nationalities we deal with pay for both. Both routes are genuinely open here. The online application is the faster one, and the High Commission in Victoria also publishes a short paper checklist, which is a real alternative rather than a formality.

Apply on the official Indian e-Visa portal

Indian mission

• The High Commission of India in Victoria is resident in Seychelles, so an application can be lodged on Mahé without leaving the country.
• Third floor, Maison Esplanade, Francis Rachel Street, Victoria, Mahé, PO Box 488, above the Al-Salam bank. Telephone +248 4 674 100. Consular email [email protected].
• Open Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 16:30, closing between 12:00 and 12:30. Visa files are lodged in the morning only, between 08:30 and 12:00.
• The published processing time is two working days, and the mission says urgent applications can be dealt with the same day — the shortest stated turnaround of any mission in this project, and the reason a treatment date here can be arranged at shorter notice than elsewhere.
• Collection times are given differently on two of the mission's own pages, so we confirm the pick-up time with it rather than printing a time that may be wrong.

Travelling with a family member

Two people may accompany you, each on a medical attendant visa granted against your own medical visa, and for Seychellois applicants these carry no fee. The paper route in Victoria also has a medical attendant category of its own, which is uncommon in this region: in most places the paper route handles attendants only indirectly, through the patient's file. Here the category exists in the mission's own fee schedule. Which relatives qualify is not published, by the portal or by the mission, so we settle that with the High Commission rather than assume it.

Documents

• Online, the patient uploads the scanned passport bio page with the photograph and personal details, a recent front-facing photograph on a white background, and the Indian hospital's letter on its letterhead giving the date or expected date of admission. An attendant needs only the bio page. Files are PDF, between 10 KB and 300 KB, and must be in English. The passport needs six months' validity and two blank pages.
• The paper list in Victoria is short. A passport valid at least six months; the application form completed in block capitals — filled in online under "Regular Visa Application", choosing Seychelles and then the mission "Seychelles-Victoria", then printed and signed; one recent passport photograph pasted on the form; and a letter giving the patient's name, passport details and travel date, and those of anyone accompanying them.
• That letter is where Seychelles differs from everywhere else we cover: the mission will accept one from the Seychelles Ministry of Health, not only from the Indian hospital. If your care is being arranged through the public system, that is the simpler document to obtain.

Visa rules differ by country and change often. Once a partner hospital accepts your case we arrange the hospital’s invitation letter and check the current rules with you before you apply.

Getting to India

Airports

Seychelles International Airport, IATA code SEZ, on Mahé. Praslin has a second airport, used for flights between the islands rather than for leaving the country.

Routes to India

• There is a non-stop flight to India from Mahé, which is rare in this region: IndiGo flies Mahé to Mumbai on its own aircraft, without a change.
• It operates four days a week — Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday — and appears both in the weekly schedule published by the Seychelles airport authority and on the airline's own pages.
• Any other Indian city means a connection, in practice through Mumbai. For a patient who is unwell, arriving in India without an intermediate airport is worth a great deal, so it is usually better to accept a domestic leg inside India than a change on the way there.
• We check the schedule in force with you before booking.

Before you travel, check your own government’s current travel advice and your airline’s flight status.

Money

Currency

The Seychelles rupee, ISO 4217 code SCR, divided into 100 cents and issued by the Central Bank of Seychelles.

Treatments we coordinate

Our partner hospitals treat these conditions, among others. Where hospitals publish their own prices we show an indicative range; otherwise ask us for an estimate.

• Heart surgery
• Cancer treatment
• Orthopedics and joint replacement
• Spine and neurosurgery
• Kidney care and transplant
• Liver transplant
• Bone marrow transplant
• IVF and fertility treatment
• Neurology
• Eye surgery
• Cosmetic and plastic surgery
• Bariatric (weight-loss) surgery
• Dental care

Don't see your treatment? Send us your reports and we will ask the right specialists at our partner hospitals.

How it works

1. Send your medical reports.

   Share your reports and scans with us on WhatsApp, by email or through our form. Your doctor can also send them to us.

2. Receive a specialist opinion and cost estimate.

   Specialists at our partner hospitals review your reports. We send you their opinion, the treatment they recommend and a clear cost estimate.

3. We arrange your travel.

   We arrange the hospital's invitation letter for your medical visa and help you with flights, accommodation and airport pickup.

4. Treatment, return home and follow-up.

   We support you during treatment and recovery in India, and we stay in touch after you return home.

Our partner hospitals

We work with partner hospitals across India. Their specialists review the medical information on this website and discuss cases with referring doctors.

• Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru / Pune / Gurugram / DelhiJCI-accredited
• Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune
• Jehangir Hospital, Pune
• Ramaiah Hospital, BengaluruJCI-accredited
• Kauvery Hospital, BengaluruJCI-accredited
• Aster Medicity, BengaluruJCI-accredited
• Fortis Hospitals, Bengaluru / Gurugram / NoidaJCI-accredited
• Apollo Hospitals, Bhopal / Bengaluru / Delhi / ChennaiJCI-accredited
• Medanta
• Artemis Hospitals

Talk to us about treatment in India

Send us your medical reports whenever you are ready, or ask us a question first. Coordination is free for patients.

For referring doctors

If you refer patients for treatment in India, we work alongside you. You submit the case through our online case form, and a specialist from our partner hospitals can discuss it with you by video call on request. We keep you informed during your patient's treatment and after they return home, so you can continue their care.