Heart treatment in India for Togolese patients

The cardiac file, and how we handle records in French

The studies that decide a heart case travel by file: an ECG, an echocardiogram with its measurements, the coronary angiogram images where one has been performed, and a medicine list with exact doses. Records in French are workable — we organise the file so a reviewing cardiologist can genuinely act on it, and we flag early anything that needs translating — but images carry more weight than prose, so ask the cath lab in Lomé or Kara for the angiogram on disc or by file transfer rather than relying on the typed summary. Add kidney readings and blood counts from recent months, because they alter what an operating team can schedule. From that package, a cardiologist reviewing it remotely can tell you whether the procedure advised sits within accepted practice for your anatomy, whether a stent or surgery is the reasonable route, and which questions to take back to your own doctor. If part of the file is missing, too old or ambiguous, the review says what is needed instead of filling the gap with a guess.

An independent opinion while the money is still the family's

A heart operation is the largest single payment most families ever plan, and when the funding is shared — parents, siblings, a tontine, a relative in France — the advice driving it needs an independent read before any of it moves. A $50 video consultation or a $150 written opinion asks an Indian cardiologist to examine the reasoning, not just repeat the diagnosis: is surgery genuinely the right route, is the urgency real, what does each option ask of the patient afterwards. You fund both yourself, so the consultant owes nothing to any hospital's admission targets, and both amounts come back in full if you continue with us. The written conclusion does particular work in shared funding: it gives every contributor a document that explains, in clinical terms, why the money is being asked for — which is worth more than any appeal when a committee must agree. Sometimes the finding is that the advised plan is sound and the family proceeds with confidence; occasionally it is that the journey adds nothing, and that answer, arriving in Lomé before a visa application, costs less than everything else on this page and matters more.

An itemized quote every contributor can verify

Cardiac bills have more variable parts than most: the operation, the number and type of stents or the valve model, ICU days, perfusion, blood products, and the medicines you leave with. A single-line package hides all of it, and a package is not just opaque for a tontine — it is unfundable, because nobody can verify what their contribution is buying. Every quote we obtain is itemized by the hospital, each significant component on its own line, priced in USD and locked in writing before you fly; when your case changes, the change is a line you can see, not a total that quietly grew. The payment route needs the same care: the CFA franc's euro peg keeps hard-currency planning relatively predictable, but transfers from Togo route through correspondent banks and take time, so we lock quotes early and start payments early, and the itemized estimate is exactly the paperwork your bank will ask to see. Treatment money goes from you to the hospital directly, on the hospital's own invoice; a relative in France can pay the hospital directly in euros; and our published fee is a separate invoice, never folded into a hospital bill.

From Lomé's hub airport, planned around the admission date

There are no direct flights from Lomé to India, but the journey starts better than from most of West Africa: Lomé's airport is a regional connecting hub, so the trip begins at home rather than with a road journey to a foreign airport. Typical routings as of mid-2026 run via Addis Ababa, with one or two stops and a long door-to-door journey, and treatment in an Indian city beyond the gateway adds one short domestic connection. A cardiac patient needs that chain planned around the body: an admission date confirmed before any ticket is bought, connection times that do not test a weak heart, assistance booked where it matters. Tripcuro, our travel arm, plans the whole route — flights, airport pickup, accommodation near the hospital — around that date. Togolese nationals are generally understood to be eligible for India's online e-Medical visa, with companions applying for linked e-Medical Attendant visas; confirm current terms on the official Indian visa portal when you apply, and keep a yellow-fever vaccination certificate ready, as it is required for travel from Togo to India. We coordinate the hospital invitation letter the application needs.

What to prepare

• Your most recent ECG and echocardiogram, plus the angiogram images on disc or by file transfer where one has been done
• A full medicine list with doses, anticoagulants spelled out, together with allergies or past reactions
• Reports and letters in French are fine; include your treating cardiologist's summary of what has been advised
• Kidney readings and blood counts from recent months, since they decide what an operating team can safely schedule
• A funding map naming every contributor — family, tontine, relative abroad — and how each payment reaches the hospital directly
• A yellow-fever vaccination certificate, required for travel to India from Togo
• The questions your family and contributors want answered before the quote arrives, written down and agreed