Nepal's national transplant centre publishes its own milestones — for solid organs it was still announcing individual transplant numbers into 2025. Haematopoietic transplant capacity is similarly concentrated in a small number of units.
Source: Shahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Centre public noticesCost guide · Nepal · haemato-oncology
Bone marrow transplant cost in India for Nepali patients
Bone marrow transplant is the treatment where a headline price misleads families most, because the first estimate covers the transplant admission and the real financial exposure sits in the months after it. This page explains what to ask for so the number you plan against is the honest one.
- Donor type changes everything
- Ask for the complication and post-transplant assumptions in writing
- Written hospital estimate before travel
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General information for planning, not medical advice. Diagnosis and treatment decisions rest with the treating doctors and hospitals.
Why families from Nepal look across the border for transplant
Transplant is capacity-limited everywhere in the region, and matched-donor logistics add a second constraint on top of the clinical one.
Leukaemia and lymphoma protocols fail when they are interrupted. Distance to a unit that can support neutropenic patients is a clinical variable, not just a convenience one.
Sibling matching is quick to test and slow to accept emotionally. Haploidentical and unrelated-donor routes exist but change both the protocol and the price.
What a transplant admission involves
General description only. Your haematologist decides the donor type, regimen and timing.
- 01Donor workup
The donor is investigated as thoroughly as the patient. For a family donor this usually means travelling together and staying through the harvest.
- 02Conditioning
Chemotherapy, sometimes with radiation, to prepare the marrow. Myeloablative and reduced-intensity regimens are not the same admission and are not the same cost.
- 03The transplant and engraftment
The infusion itself is short. The weeks in protective isolation waiting for counts to recover are what the bill is made of.
- 04Complication management
Graft-versus-host disease, infection and rejection are the events that separate an estimate from a final bill. Ask specifically how each is treated in the estimate.
- 05Post-transplant follow-up
Months of immunosuppression, monitoring and drug cost, some of which can be run from Nepal if the discharge plan says so.
What actually moves the number
Bring this list to whichever hospital you are talking to. The questions are the same everywhere.
- Autologous versus allogeneic transplant
- Donor type: matched sibling, haploidentical family donor, or matched unrelated donor
- Registry search and donor procurement charges, where an unrelated donor is used
- Conditioning regimen intensity
- Number of days in protective isolation
- Whether the estimate assumes an uncomplicated course, and what happens to the figure if it is not
- Graft-versus-host prophylaxis and treatment drugs
- Blood product support and antifungal or antiviral cover
- The post-transplant medication tail after discharge — often the most under-planned item
What a written estimate usually covers
- The transplant admission for a stated number of days
- Conditioning chemotherapy as named in the protocol
- Donor workup and harvest, where the donor is a family member travelling with you
- Routine monitoring during the admission
What sits outside it
- Extended ICU stay, severe graft-versus-host disease or a major infection episode
- Re-admission after discharge
- Months of post-transplant immunosuppression and antimicrobial drugs
- Accommodation for the family during the required post-discharge stay near the hospital
We publish no prices on this page. Any figure quoted before a specialist has read your reports is a guess, and a guess is a bad thing to plan a family’s finances around. What we do instead is obtain the hospital’s own written estimate, in its own format, with its assumptions stated — before you decide whether to travel. See how CureYatra handles costs.
What to send us before anything else
Do not attach medical records to the form below. Send a short enquiry first and we will reply with secure sharing instructions and a written consent step.
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy reports, with immunophenotyping and cytogenetics if done
- Complete blood counts across time — the trend matters more than one reading
- Diagnosis details and every cycle of chemotherapy already given, with dates
- Current remission status and the treating haematologist's note
- HLA typing for the patient and any potential family donor, if already done
Case-coordination fee · Nepal
NPR 5,000 per patient, per year — coordination only.
Inclusive of applicable taxes. The first enquiry is free; the fee is requested only when you decide to proceed, together with the reports and record-sharing consent. Every hospital, doctor, medicine, implant, diagnostic and travel charge is separate and paid by you directly to the provider. Terms & Conditions apply.
Questions Nepali families ask
How much does a bone marrow transplant cost in India for a Nepali patient?
We do not publish a figure, because the two variables that decide it — donor type and whether the course is complicated — are unknown until the haematologist has read the reports. We ask the hospital to state its estimate in writing, along with the assumptions behind it, before you commit to travel.
What is the single biggest reason the final bill exceeds the estimate?
Complications, and in particular graft-versus-host disease, serious infection and extended ICU stay. Ask every hospital to tell you in writing what its estimate assumes and what the exposure looks like if the course is not straightforward.
Does the donor have to travel from Nepal too?
For a family donor, yes — donor workup and harvest happen at the transplant centre. Plan the donor's documents, leave and accommodation at the same time as the patient's, not afterwards.
How long will we have to stay in India?
Longer than the admission. Transplant teams normally require the patient to remain within reach of the centre for a defined period after discharge. Get that period in writing before you book return travel, because it drives accommodation cost.
Can follow-up continue in Nepal?
Frequently a large part of it can, with a haematologist at home and scheduled video review with the transplant team. It has to be written into the discharge plan by the treating team, not arranged informally later.
Nepal patient desk · direct enquiry
Send your case from Nepal — the first enquiry is free.
Tell us the diagnosis area and how to reach you. A coordinator replies on WhatsApp or email, explains how to share reports securely, and only then are suitable hospitals asked for a written clinical plan and their own estimate.
- The first enquiry costs nothing. The NPR 5,000 annual case-coordination fee is requested only if you decide to proceed.
- No Indian visa for Nepali citizens entering from Nepal, subject to the official identity-document and route conditions.
- Nepali-language coordination, and consultations in English or Hindi.
- You pay the hospital directly against its own written invoice — never CureYatra.
- No hospital, price, timing or treatment outcome is guaranteed here; the hospital’s written documents always prevail.
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