Consultation and examination by Dr. Kunda Shahane, MBBS, MS (Obstetrics & Gynaecology). Tests chosen for your situation rather than sold as a panel, results explained to you in person, and your partner treated here too where he needs to be. What you say in this room stays in this room.
If you are looking for somewhere in Nagpur to be tested for a sexually transmitted infection without the whole thing becoming public, this is that.
You will see Dr. Kunda Shahane — a woman gynaecologist — in a private consultation room. She takes the history, performs the examination, arranges the tests that are actually relevant, explains the results to you directly, treats what is found, and treats your partner where he needs treating too.
Most people who come here have spent a while working up to it. Some have been treating themselves from a chemist for months. Some are worried about a partner. Some have no symptoms at all and simply want to know. All of those are ordinary, sensible reasons to walk in, and none of them require an explanation or an apology.
Mayflower Clinic is best known for fetal medicine and high-risk pregnancy. That is a description of Dr. Kunda's subspecialty, not a limit on her practice — she qualified and trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist first, and gynaecological and sexual health care has been part of her work throughout. Where symptoms turn out not to be sexually transmitted at all, which is common, they are treated just the same; that ground is covered in more detail on the vaginal infections page.
Confidentiality is easy to promise on a website and harder to practise in a busy clinic. In practical terms, here is what it means at Mayflower.
The consultation is with you. If a relative or partner has come with you, they are not automatically included in the conversation — you will be asked whether you want them present, and it is entirely acceptable to say no. Reports are handed to you, not left with anyone else. Nothing is discussed with a family member without your permission.
If there is something specific you are worried about — a report arriving at home, someone recognising you in the waiting area, a particular person finding out — say so at the beginning. It is a normal thing to raise and it can usually be arranged around.
Where a partner needs to be treated, that is arranged with your agreement and on your terms. Nobody is contacted on your behalf without your consent, and what you have told Dr. Kunda in private stays private even when she is treating him.
Discharge that has changed in colour, smell or amount. Burning when passing urine. Itching that keeps coming back after every home remedy. Ulcers, sores, warts or a rash. Pain during sex or unexplained pelvic pain.
Why it matters: repeatedly self-treating an infection you have not confirmed is the most common reason a simple problem becomes a long one. Several conditions look alike and respond to completely different treatment.
A one-off exposure, a condom that failed, or a new relationship where neither of you has been tested.
Why it matters: timing decides which tests are meaningful, because infections do not all become detectable at the same time. You will be told what can usefully be tested now and what has to be repeated later, rather than everything being tested at once and called done.
Someone has told you they have an infection and you need to know where you stand.
Why it matters: in this situation treatment is often started alongside testing rather than after it, and both of you are treated together — because until both have completed treatment, the infection simply passes back and forth.
Before marriage, before trying to conceive, or for your own peace of mind. Pre-marriage counselling covers the wider version of this conversation.
Why it matters: chlamydia is frequently silent and can still scar the fallopian tubes. Finding it in a woman with no complaints at all is one of the more genuinely useful things a test can do.
Difficulty conceiving, a history of pelvic infection, or previous pelvic inflammatory disease. This belongs inside the infertility evaluation, not alongside it as an afterthought.
Why it matters: past infection is a recognised contributor to tubal factor infertility and to ectopic pregnancy risk, and it is often silent in the woman who has it.
Symptoms during pregnancy, or a known exposure.
Why it matters: some infections can be passed to the baby during pregnancy or at delivery. Several are tested for routinely in antenatal care for exactly this reason, and treatment during pregnancy is chosen with the pregnancy in mind.
Every infection has a period after exposure during which it is present but not yet detectable. Test inside that period and you get a negative result that means nothing — except that many people take it as an all-clear and never come back.
Swab tests for the common bacterial infections generally become reliable around two weeks after exposure. For HIV, the CDC publishes distinct windows for distinct tests: a laboratory antigen-antibody test on blood taken from a vein detects infection about 18 to 45 days after exposure, a rapid finger-prick antigen-antibody test 18 to 90 days, and antibody-only tests 23 to 90 days. Syphilis and hepatitis have their own timings again.
None of that is a reason to delay being seen. It is a reason to be seen promptly and then tested on a schedule rather than all at once. If you have had a high-risk exposure within the last three days, say so when you book — there are time-critical options in that window that are worth discussing immediately, and those hours matter.
What this means for you in practice. You will leave the first visit with anything that clearly needs treating already treated, and with a written date for the tests that are not yet meaningful. A clinic that tests everything on day three and tells you that you are fine is not being thorough — it is giving you a result the test could not yet produce.
This is the part most women are not offered anywhere, and it is the reason the same infection keeps coming back. A woman is diagnosed, treated and cleared. Her partner is handed a verbal message to take to a doctor he does not get around to seeing. Three weeks later she is back with the same symptoms and is told, often enough, that she must have caught it again.
At this clinic, where the partner of a woman under Dr. Kunda's care needs treating, he is seen and treated here as part of the same plan. Not a note passed along. Not a prescription handed over for someone she has never met. He is examined, the treatment is explained to him directly, and both of you are told when it is safe to resume sex — which is the instruction most commonly left out and most commonly responsible for reinfection.
The CDC's sexually transmitted infection treatment guidelines describe partner management as an essential component of treatment, with the clinician arranging evaluation and treatment of partners directly. In practice it is skipped constantly, and women pay the cost of that in repeat courses of antibiotics for an infection that was never actually eradicated from the couple.
This does not make the clinic a men's service. Dr. Kunda's practice is gynaecology, and men are seen as partners of women already under her care. A man who wants testing on his own account should see his own doctor, or use a government Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre, where HIV testing and counselling are free.
A laboratory can tell you what was found. It cannot decide whether the result explains your symptoms, whether the treatment is safe in your particular situation, whether your partner needs treating, whether a repeat test is needed and when, or what any of it means for your fertility or a future pregnancy. Here the same doctor takes the history, performs the examination, chooses the tests, interprets them, prescribes the treatment, treats the partner and follows it through. Nothing is handed between people, and you are not left to interpret a report on your own.
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There is no package price here, because a package is exactly the wrong shape for this problem — it charges some women for tests they do not need and leaves others without the one they do.
| Item | How it is charged |
|---|---|
| Consultation and examination | Charged as a gynaecology consultation |
| Swabs and blood tests | Billed by the laboratory that processes them, according to which tests are ordered |
| Pelvic ultrasound | Charged separately, only where indicated |
| Partner’s consultation and treatment | Charged as a consultation in his own right |
| HIV testing at a government ICTC | Free — and you will be told when that is the sensible route |
WhatsApp +91 8087471244 describing the situation, and you will be given the consultation charge and a realistic idea of the testing cost before you travel. No payment is taken to book, and you do not have to explain yourself over a message.
Yes. Your consultation is with Dr. Kunda Shahane directly, and what you tell her is not discussed with anyone else without your permission — including family members who may have accompanied you. Reports are handed to you personally. If you would prefer that nobody else in the room hears part of the conversation, say so and the consultation will be arranged that way.
An appointment is preferred. Mayflower Clinic is open Monday to Saturday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and is closed on Sunday. Call 0712-669-2706 or, if you would rather not phone, message on WhatsApp at 8087471244 to arrange a time. Booking ahead also means less time spent in the waiting area.
Yes. Dr. Kunda Shahane is a woman gynaecologist — MBBS, MS (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) — and she conducts the consultation and the examination herself. For many people this is the reason they are able to seek help at all, and it is a normal thing to ask for.
He is treated here. Where a woman under Dr. Kunda's care has an infection that requires the partner to be treated as well, she sees him and treats him as part of the same plan rather than sending you home with a message to pass on. This applies to the common bacterial and parasitic infections that pass back and forth between partners, and it is the single most effective way to stop the cycle of treating a woman, clearing her infection, and having it return a few weeks later. Partner management is described in the CDC's STI treatment guidelines as an essential part of treatment, not an optional extra.
No. Dr. Kunda's practice is gynaecology, so men are seen as partners of women who are under her care, not as independent patients. A man who wants testing on his own account should see a physician, a dermatologist or a urologist, or use a government Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre, where HIV testing and counselling are provided free.
You can be seen now, and you should be — but not every test will mean anything yet. Infections become detectable at different times, so a test done too early can give a negative result that is simply wrong. Swab tests for the common bacterial infections generally become reliable about two weeks after exposure. For HIV, the CDC gives a window of 18 to 45 days for a laboratory antigen-antibody test on blood from a vein, and up to 90 days for antibody-only and rapid tests. The right approach is to be seen promptly, treat anything that clearly needs treating, and be given a written date to come back for the tests that are not yet meaningful.
Unusual vaginal discharge, burning while passing urine, genital ulcers, sores or warts, itching that keeps returning, pain during sex, unexplained pelvic pain, or a rash. You should also consider testing after unprotected sex with a new partner, if a partner has been diagnosed with an infection, or before trying to conceive — even with no symptoms at all, because several infections are silent.
Yes, and it is often the right thing to do. Chlamydia in particular frequently causes no symptoms while still capable of damaging the fallopian tubes and affecting future fertility. Testing without symptoms is a reasonable request and you do not need to justify it.
Which tests you need depends on your symptoms, your exposure and how long ago it was — this is not a fixed panel. Typically it involves an examination, swabs taken at the clinic, and blood tests. Swabs and blood samples are sent to a laboratory for processing; there is no laboratory on the premises. What happens here is the part that a laboratory cannot do: deciding which tests are worth running, interpreting them against your symptoms, prescribing treatment, and arranging the partner's treatment.
It can. Untreated chlamydia and gonorrhoea can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, which may scar the fallopian tubes and contribute to infertility or ectopic pregnancy. Several infections can also be passed to the baby during pregnancy or delivery, which is why some are tested for routinely in antenatal care. Treating an infection early is considerably simpler than managing its consequences later.
Bring the packets or a photograph of them. Partial or wrong treatment is extremely common and it matters clinically: it can suppress an infection enough to make a swab negative without curing it, which is how a straightforward problem becomes a recurrent one. You will not be criticised for it. It is information, and it changes which tests are useful.
The consultation is charged as a gynaecology consultation, and laboratory tests are billed by the laboratory that processes them — so the total depends on which tests you actually need rather than on a package. WhatsApp 8087471244 describing the situation and you will be given the consultation charge and a realistic idea of the testing cost before you come. Free HIV testing and counselling are also available at government Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres, and Dr. Kunda will say so where that is the sensible route.
Clinical records are kept confidentially at the clinic and are not shared with family members. If you are concerned about a report reaching your home or about who collects it, tell Dr. Kunda at the start of the consultation so it can be handled appropriately.
Yes. A large proportion of women who come with these symptoms turn out to have something that is not sexually transmitted at all — bacterial vaginosis, thrush, a skin condition, or a urinary infection. Those are covered on the vaginal infections page and are treated the same way, without any assumption about how you acquired them. Being examined is what tells the difference; guessing from symptoms does not.
Confidentiality in my clinic is a practical reality, not just a line on a form. I speak directly with the patient and never assume a partner should hear everything. I always ask before bringing someone else into sensitive conversations. A woman shouldn’t have to spend her consultation worrying about who will find out what she said.Dr. Kunda Shahane MBBS · MS (Obs & Gynae) · FIFM · FMF (London)
Written and medically reviewed by Dr. Kunda Shahane, MBBS, MS (Obs & Gynae), FIFM, FMF (London) · Last reviewed: 1 September 2026
Whether you have symptoms, an exposure you are worried about, or simply want to know — book a private consultation with Dr. Kunda Shahane. If phoning feels difficult, WhatsApp is fine, and you do not have to explain the situation in the message. Mayflower Clinic, Surdham Complex, Behind Silver Palace Building, 2nd Lane from Panchsheel Square, Opp. Yashwant Stadium, Dhantoli, Nagpur – 440012.
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