The medical travel checklist: what to bring to India
Reports, images, medicines, money and the documents for your attendants — in one list.
Visa & Travel · 2 October 2026 · By Nikhil Sharma, Founder
Bring every recent medical report and scan image, your passport and visa approvals, the hospital’s invitation letter, a list of current medicines and a way to pay hospital deposits. Paperwork causes more delays in medical travel than medicine does. Bring everything below on paper and digitally.
Medical
- All recent reports, and the scan images themselves (DICOM files on a disc or link), not only the written report
- Pathology slides or blocks if your specialist asks for them
- A list of current medicines with doses, and enough supply for the trip
- Discharge summaries from previous admissions
- Allergy information
Travel and identity
- Passports for patient and attendants
- e-Medical and e-Medical Attendant visa approvals, printed
- The hospital’s invitation letter
- For transplants: relationship documents and embassy Form 21
Money and comfort
- A way to pay hospital deposits — ask the hospital which methods it accepts
- Travel insurance that covers your trip, if available to you
- Comfortable clothes for recovery, and something from home
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