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Travelling to Kerala for surgery

Plan your trip around your recovery, not your flight

Below is an example plan for a single-area liposuction. Your surgeon sets your actual dates after assessing you, and only your surgeon decides when you are fit to fly home.

A couple relaxing in an inpatient suite at Medlounges
Surgery takes place at
Medlounges hospital, Thiruvalla
Consultations
Online, Kochi or Thiruvalla
Nearest airports
Kochi (COK) · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV)
Book your return as
A changeable ticket
Example plan · single-area liposuction

Your visit, step by step

Two steps are checkpoints: surgery goes ahead only after your in-person assessment, and you fly only after your fit-to-fly review.

2–4 weeks before

Video consultation from home

Meet the surgical team online, share your medical history and medicines, and receive a written plan and cost estimate. Your coordinator helps with travel and stay.

Day 1

Arrive and rest

Airport pickup can be arranged. Rest after your flight; we do not schedule surgery on arrival day.

Day 2
Checkpoint

In-person assessment

Surgeon consultation, blood tests, ECG, blood-clot risk check and a pre-anaesthetic review. If anything needs more attention, we postpone rather than proceed.

Day 3

Procedure day

Surgery at our Thiruvalla hospital with a qualified anaesthesiologist. You recover in our monitored unit and stay overnight if the team advises it.

Following days

Recovery in Kerala

Wound and garment checks, post-liposuction physiotherapy and short daily walks. Your coordinator stays in touch every day.

When ready
Checkpoint

Fit-to-fly review

Your surgeon examines you and gives written clearance with advice for the journey. The date depends on your procedure and how you are healing.

Back home

Follow-up by video

Video reviews every week for the first six weeks, and a direct line to the team if you have any concern.

How long to stay

Plan for at least this long in Kerala

A guide for booking. Your surgeon may ask you to stay longer.

ProcedurePlan to stay at leastGarment worn for
Liposuction, one area5–7 days4–6 weeks
Liposuction, several areas7–15 days4–6 weeks
Gynaecomastia correction2–3 daysAs advised by your surgeon
Abdominoplasty or mommy makeover15–20 daysAs advised by your surgeon
Flying after surgery

Why we will not promise a fly-home date in advance

Long flights soon after surgery raise the risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs. Everyone heals at a different pace, so the safe date is decided at your review, not when you book.

On the flight home

  • Wear your compression garment
  • Book an aisle seat and walk the aisle every hour
  • Drink water often; skip alcohol
  • Do ankle and calf exercises while seated
  • Take any medicines the surgeon prescribed for the journey
  • Carry your discharge summary and our contact number
Flying in from an Indian metro?

Liposuction with a backwater stay, from ₹95,000 + GST

For patients from Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi NCR: flight allowance, stay, airport transfers and a shikara ride before surgery, in one package.

See the Kerala package
Start planning

Tell us where you are and when you could travel

A coordinator replies on WhatsApp in your language and books your video consultation at a time that suits your time zone.

Medlounges hospital building in Thiruvalla

Message our international desk

Tell us your country, the procedure you are considering and when you could travel. We reply in Malayalam, English or Arabic.

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