Abortion services, lawful and completely private

If you are reading this at night, on your own, trying to work out what to do next: you do not have to decide everything today. This page is a starting point, not a form to fill in.

No one will know you were here

For most women who come to us for this, the fear of being found out is larger than the fear of the treatment itself. So privacy here is not a policy kept in a drawer — it is built 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 recorded where anyone else can see it, 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 for exactly this. Nobody will look at you a certain way. 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, taken as seriously here as any clinical rule.

Many of the women we care for are unmarried. That is completely lawful, it is common, and it changes nothing whatsoever about how you are treated here. For a great many patients this is the first time they have been inside a hospital at all, and they arrive frightened. You are welcomed here, not processed — and someone stays with you through the whole of it, not only through the few minutes of 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. Read how the MTP Act works if you want to know exactly where you stand.

Why sooner is easier than later

The Act sets limits, and which one applies depends on your own situation. The more useful thing to know is this: earlier is genuinely simpler. An earlier pregnancy usually needs less intervention, is safer, and recovers faster — and more of the options are still open to you, including the medication route, which stops being suitable quite early on. Waiting makes nothing easier. Calling costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.

What happens here

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 cannot dispense the medicines without it. It is not paperwork for its own sake. It is the record that the decision was yours, taken with a doctor who had examined you, at a place licensed to do it. Being asked to sign it is one of the plainest signs that you are in the right kind of place.

The figure you are given is the figure you pay

Tell us roughly how many weeks you are when you call and we can usually give you a close estimate. It rests on a recent ultrasound, though, and it cannot account for an examination that has not happened yet — so it stays an estimate.

When you arrive, our own certified doctors assess you, examine you and repeat the investigations themselves, so your exact situation and how many weeks you are is known rather than assumed. Only then do we give you a precise, itemised cost — hospital, medical, pharmacy and laboratory, each set out separately. That becomes a promised package in rupees. Hospital fees are taken in full in advance, and the figure does not move afterwards. What you are told at the beginning is what you pay at the end.

An ectopic pregnancy is not a termination

An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that has settled and begun growing outside the womb, usually in a fallopian tube. It is a different medical condition — not a termination of pregnancy — and it is an emergency. It is sometimes discovered on the scan done before a termination, which is precisely why that scan is done first, every time. Where it is found, treating it is emergency surgery to protect your life, decided on entirely different grounds from anything else on this page. Read about ectopic pregnancy.

Getting here, and getting home

The hospital runs its own cars. We collect you from anywhere 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 transport, and you do not need anyone to come with you if you would rather come alone. Patients also travel here from other states and from the Gulf. Wherever you are starting from, call or WhatsApp first and we will plan the visit around you.

Pill or procedure

Very early pregnancies are usually managed with medication under medical supervision; later ones need a short surgical procedure. Medical (pill) termination and surgical termination each have their own page, with what actually happens and what recovery involves. For cost, see cost of abortion in India and cost of the medical abortion pill.

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.