From abroad
Travelling for surgery
A significant number of the patients treated here travel from abroad. This page is about the part of that which is not surgery: what has to happen before you book anything, where you will actually be, how long the trip realistically needs to be, and what happens once you are home again.
The practice would rather talk you out of a badly planned trip than have you arrive for an operation that was never going to fit the time you set aside.
Before you book anything
The sequence is: enquiry, then a conversation, then a plan, then flights. Not the other way round. An operation is planned from an examination, and until that has happened nobody can tell you with any honesty how long you will need to be here or what the recovery will ask of you.
A remote consultation is the usual first step for a patient abroad. It is a conversation about what is bothering you and which operation is likely to address it, held before anyone commits to travel.
Where you will be
Two addresses matter and they are not the same one. Consultations and follow-up are held at the clinics — Nicosia, Limassol, Athens, Malta, the last of these hosted at Clinica Joia. The operation is performed at The Surgery Center 3i, Tseriou 188, Strovolos, 2044, Cyprus, or in surgical facilities in Athens and Malta.
Where your operation takes place is agreed at the consultation, so a trip built around surgery is planned around that address. Accommodation is worth booking near the operating facility rather than near the clinic you consulted in.
How long to stay
There is no single answer, and this site deliberately does not publish one. The time between the operation and the point at which it is sensible to fly depends on which operation it is, whether you had a general anaesthetic, how the first days go and what your own health history adds to that.
What the practice does is give you the figure for your procedure — the minimum stay, when the first post-operative review falls, and when you can expect to be cleared to travel — before you book flights. Ask for it at the point you are choosing dates, and treat any number you find elsewhere as somebody else's operation.
Book flexible tickets if you can. Recovery is not always on schedule, and a changeable return is worth more than the fare saved on a fixed one.
Bring someone with you
Travelling alone for an operation is possible but not ideal. Someone who can collect you, carry things, and notice if something is not right is worth more in the first days than any arrangement made in advance — particularly in a country whose health system you do not know.
Bring your medical history, a list of every medicine you take including anything bought without a prescription, and your insurance documents if a claim is involved. If a translation is needed for any of it, arrange it before you fly.
Follow-up once you are home
Aftercare does not end at the airport. Reviews after you have travelled home are handled remotely, and the practice will tell you what it needs to see, when, and how to send it through a route that treats it as the medical information it is.
If something is worrying you, say so immediately rather than waiting for the next scheduled review — and if it is urgent, use the emergency service where you are before you contact the practice.
Cost, insurance and paperwork
No prices are published on this site. A written quotation follows the consultation, once it is settled what the operation actually is. If you are flying in and need a sense of the range before you commit to the trip, ask — you will be told rather than left to find out on arrival.
If an insurer is involved, contact them before you travel and bring the paperwork with you. A claim held up by a missing form is the most common reason a surgery date moves, and it is a worse problem when you have flown in for it.
Calling from outside Cyprus
From anywhere in the world
The Nicosia office. Every enquiry, from every clinic, is answered here.
Once you are in Cyprus
This number is free, but it only connects from inside Cyprus. It will not work from abroad, with or without a country code — use the first number until you have landed.
Common questions
Where is the surgery actually performed?
Operations are carried out at The Surgery Center 3i, Tseriou 188, Strovolos, 2044, Cyprus, or in surgical facilities in Athens and Malta. Consultations and follow-up happen at the clinics; the operation itself does not.
How long will I need to stay?
It depends on the operation and on how your recovery goes, so the practice gives you the figure for your procedure before you book flights rather than publishing a general one. Plan the trip after that conversation, not before.
Can I be reviewed once I am home?
Yes. Follow-up after you have travelled home is arranged remotely, and the practice will tell you what it needs to see and how to send it safely. If something needs examining in person, you will be told that plainly.