P. D. Hinduja National Hospital
Nursing Supervisor,
Veer Savarkar Road,
Mahim,
Mumbai - 400 016

Phone: +91-22-2445-2422, +91-22-2444-7183
Appointments: 9:30 AM - 4 PM, Monday through Saturday

Basic Fees:
Applicants 15 years and older:
Basic charges not to exceed Rs. 1700.
Administrative charge (excluding vaccination administration) Rs. 500;
serologic test for syphilis and HIV Rs. 550;
chest x-ray and radiology consult Rs. 150;
physical examination and documentation Rs. 500.

Any supplemental chest x-rays or serologic tests for syphilis required to clarify results compromised by laboratory error - no extra charge.
Supplemental serologic tests to confirm HIV infection Rs. 2800.
Fee for bacteriological examination of sputum, for a series of three acid-fast smears, Rs. 390.

Applicants below 15 years:
Basic charges not to exceed Rs. 1000.
Vaccination charges:
diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis Rs. 15;
tetanus and diphtheria toxoids Rs. 7;
measles, rubella, mumps Rs. 75;
polio (oral) Rs. 7;
hepatitis B Rs. 250;
haemophilus influenzae type b Rs. 450;
varicella Rs. 1460;
pneumoccocal Rs. 970;
influenza Rs. 725.

Hinduja medical examinations are handled at the hospital's Out-Patient Department (Hinduja Clinic) on the ground floor. After making the necessary payments there, the patient is asked to go to the first floor and contact the faculty office, which will give further instructions.
All reports will be available to the patient the same evening.

Quick Summary/Tips for Hinduja:

• Immigrant visa medical tests are done Monday-Friday, between 7:30 AM and 8:30 AM, in the out-patient department (OPD) of the hospital. This is in a (pale yellow-colored) building, across the road from the main hospital building, on Veer Savarkar Road in Mahim.
  
  
• The hospital staff is very courteous and friendly and the whole process is reasonably quick and painless.
  
  
• Appointments are made by phone only. The phone numbers are on the medical test instructions sent with Packet 4 and listed above as well.



• Sometimes, especially if you have an inside contact in the hospital, or know someone who does, you can get a special 7:00 AM appointment. But of course the time doesn't matter... you eventually go in with the rest of the crowd at 7:30 AM.
  
  
• Because of the same-day service, a lot of people don't leave too much of a gap between the medical and the IV interview. Don't do this, leave a buffer of at least 3-4 days, since the same-day rule holds true only if the normal tests come out OK. If additional tests are required for you/your spouse, it may eat into another 2-3 days (especially some of the tests required for women, like the sputum smear).
  
  

What is needed:
General information about requirements at any of 3 hospitals in Mumbai

If you have any of your immunization/vaccination records, take them along. You don't have to go on an empty stomach. Take a light breakfast.

The Process:

Here's how the whole process goes, assuming you've gotten an appointment:

1. Try to reach the hospital by 7 AM.
   
   
2. Go to the OPD building, across the street from the main hospital.
   
   
3. Fill out and sign a registration form at the desk in the center of the reception area, as soon as you enter the building. One form needs to be filled out for each person to be tested.
   
   
4. There are four reception windows around the room. Take the registration form, your appointment letter and the fees to any one of those.
   
   
5. Tell them you are there for the American visa medical tests. They have a pretty streamlined process for handling IV applicants.
   
   
6. After you pay the fees, the receptionist will give you four copies of the receipt and a registration card, and tell you where to go next (generally to the second floor).
   
   
7. Preserve the receipts (you will need them later), and go to the second floor (or wherever they tell you to go).
   
   
8. Each floor of the building has a central seating area, and wings all along the walls that take you to various places. Go and sit in the seating area (with other IV applicants) until your name is called.
   
   
9. The first thing on the agenda is the vaccination. If you have any records, take them with you. When your name is called, go in with your passport, photo, the receipts you just received and vaccination records, if any.
   
   
10. The doctor will look at your passport, create your file with your photo and all, keep three of the receipts and ask you for vaccination records. He/she will jab you with MMR regardless of what you show him/her, unless you were vaccinated recently (within the past five years or so).
    
    
11. Once the vaccination is done, go back out and park yourself in the seating area again.
    
    
12. Next thing is the blood test. When your name is called, go back in and part with some of your blood for the test.
    
    
13. Once all folks are done dispensing their blood, the next item is the chest X-ray. This is somewhat time-consuming. The X-rays are done over in the main hospital building across the road. The whole group is asked to follow a designated hospital attendant along a tortuous, long-winding path that takes you all the way through the OPD building, through a long corridor that connects the OPD building to the main hospital and then transcends a few floors in the main building to the X-ray chamber. Only tip here is, don't lose sight of the hospital block, or any of your co-IV-people, because heaven help you if you get lost. That hospital has a more complex geography than the insides of the Pyramids.
    
    
14. Once you reach your destination, you're required to sit in a hallway until your name is called. This tends to be a fairly long wait, so take a good book along. Generally the ladies go first.
    
    
15. The X-ray itself is a quick process. Go in, take your shirt off (the guys do, at least... not sure about the routine for girls), stand in front of a large screen in a rather comical stance, take a deep breath and hold it for a couple of seconds. A clicking sound is heard, and you're done. Drape yourself up again and go out.

16. Once everyone is done, retrace your path with the same hospital gentleman back to the OPD building.
    
    
17. By the time you get to this stage, it should be about 9:30 AM You are done with the first installment. You'll be asked to come back to the same place at any time between 1:30 PM and 3 PM (each one is given a specific time to return), for your physical, and report collection. She will also tell you whom to go see when you come back.
    
    
18. Go back home and get a nice lunch.
    
    
19. Come back to the same place at the time given to you. You are required to go directly to the designated person. They are expecting you. Don't wait in the seating area unless you come early.
    
    
20. There is another painful wait here. The time they give you, 2 PM or 2:30 PM or whatever, doesn't mean much. Just go wait in a little room till you're called.
    
    
21. When your name is called, go into the doctor's office. The doctor will ask you to lie down on the patient bed (fully clothed, no stripping as in Breach Candy). He puts your chest X-ray up and inspects it. He will then come over and do a quick physical checkup - basic stuff. If he is satisfied, you are done. He will ask you to sign on a form (which is the cover page of your medical reports). The reports are sealed, so if you want to know how the reports turned out and if everything is OK with you, now is your chance. The doctor is a nice, kindly gentleman, he will tell you.
    
    
22. Final step. Go out again and wait a few minutes in the small room. When your reports are ready, they'll call you and hand them over (in a large paper bag - large because of the disproportionately oversized chest X-ray which the consulate folks never look at anyway). The reports are sealed - keep them that way. They're supposed to be opened by the consulate people during the prescreen.
    
    

That's it. You are done. And it should not be later than 4:30 PM by then. If, however, it turns out that you need additional tests (which is entirely possible), then you have to go back down to the reception area and schedule those tests. Also, that means more money and more time. So, CARRY SUFFICIENT CASH, and more importantly, KEEP A BUFFER between medical tests and consulate interview - at least 3-4 days, preferably a week (because some tests, especially women's tests, can take upto three days).

Hotel Shobha (take a left at east building gate and left again near the petrol pump, walk 10 minutes) is also a nice place in Mahim for breakfast and lunch on the day of your medical. Again this is vegetarian and Udupi guy's.