Phototherapy for vitiligo is a course, not an appointment. Two or three sessions a week for months. This clinic is in Karkhana, which for most of Secunderabad makes that course something you can actually finish.
Vitiligo is treated in two halves, and which half you are in decides everything that follows. Active disease (new patches, existing ones spreading), is quietened first. Repigmenting skin while fresh patches keep appearing is effort spent against a moving target.
Stable disease is the one that responds to light. Narrowband UVB for widespread patches, excimer where there are only a few, usually alongside a topical. You are told at the first visit which category you are in, roughly how long a fair trial takes, and which of your patches are unlikely to respond to light at all.
That last part matters more than it sounds. Patches on the lips, the fingertips, and any patch whose hairs have gone white have lost the pigment reservoir that light works by recruiting. Being told so at the start is more useful than six months of finding out.
Dr. (Lt Col) Khagendra Varada
Reg. No. 10461, Hyderabad State Medical Council
Full background →“I have been going pillar to post to get my son cured of his white spot on his left side of lip and chin. It appeared 8 years back. I was told it’s special type of nerve vitiligo which has no cure. After reporting to him he told us that it is SEGMENTAL VITILIGO and unlikely and difficult to be cleared by medications alone. He suggested for surgical melanocyte transplant… I was amazed after around one month that he started rapidly getting pigmentation. I wholeheartedly suggest please do not waste time like I did.”
“Dr. Varada was excellent. Clearly knowledgeable and thorough, took time to explain what they saw and why. Office staff were friendly and the visit felt unrushed. Highly recommend for anyone wanting a dermatologist who really knows their craft.”
Knowing what regrowth looks like makes a long course easier to stay with. Pigment comes back as small islands spreading out from individual hairs, and as a band creeping in from the edge of the patch — both slow, both real.
This is also why we look closely at the hairs inside a patch at the first visit. Where they have turned white the reservoir is gone, and light and creams have much less to work with.
Illustration, not a photograph.
Wood’s lamp, patch margins, a history of new patches, and baseline photographs. Active or stable decides the whole plan.
Topicals, occasionally a short oral course. This comes before any attempt at repigmentation.
NB-UVB two to three times a week, or excimer twice a week for a few patches. Reviewed at six to eight weeks with photographs.
Patches that will not answer light, on disease settled for about twelve months, are assessed for melanocyte transplant or punch grafting.
Narrowband UVB is two to three sessions a week. Excimer is usually twice a week. Both run for months, not weeks. That means somewhere between forty and eighty separate trips before the course is finished, and the single commonest reason a course is abandoned is not that it stopped working. It is that the journey stopped being possible.
Which is why this page leads with the address rather than the equipment. If you live on the Secunderabad side, a clinic in Karkhana is a fifteen-minute problem. The same course booked across the city is a ninety-minute problem twice a week, and the difference between those two numbers decides how much of your skin repigments.
Every locality, and how farAdherence is the variable a patient controls most and hears about least. Distance is most of it.
Consulting runs mon–sat, 11:30 am – 5:00 pm, so a session slots into a lunch break rather than costing an afternoon.
| Locality | Distance | Practical for 2–3 visits a week |
|---|---|---|
| Karkhana | the clinic’s own locality | Yes |
| Vikrampuri Colony | walking distance | Yes |
| Trimulgherry | about 2 km | Yes |
| West & East Marredpally | about 3 km | Yes |
| Bowenpally | about 4 km | Yes |
| Bolarum | about 5 km | Yes |
| Alwal | about 6 km | Yes |
| Tarnaka | about 7 km | Yes |
| Begumpet | about 7 km | Yes |
| Malkajgiri | about 8 km | Yes |
| Kompally | about 9 km | Yes |
| Sainikpuri & A.S. Rao Nagar | about 10 km | Yes |
Distances are approximate road distances to Karkhana. If you are further out (Kukatpally, Gachibowli, LB Nagar), phototherapy two or three times a week is worth thinking about honestly before you commit to it, and a unit closer to home may serve you better even if you are assessed here.
Grafting is a different proposition from phototherapy. A staged visit rather than a standing weekly commitment, which is why patients come for it from outside Telangana. Send photographs on WhatsApp before booking travel so you know whether your disease is settled enough to operate on.
One consulting location, formerly BNR Skin & Vitiligo Hospital. The practice has held this address for years.
Plot No 13D/B, Wellington Rd, Vikrampuri Colony, Karkhana, Secunderabad, Telangana 500009.
On WhatsApp: one number, answered by the clinic team, who confirm a time and say what to bring.
Plot No 13D/B, Wellington Rd, Vikrampuri Colony, Karkhana, Secunderabad 500009. The practice formerly known as BNR Skin & Vitiligo Hospital. Consulting is Monday to Saturday, 11:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Here. Narrowband UVB and excimer are on site, along with the consultation and the surgical list, so a course does not mean travelling between places.
Narrowband UVB is typically two to three sessions a week; excimer is usually twice a week. Courses run for months, with a review every six to eight weeks.
Yes: all three are within about six kilometres, which is the range where twice- or thrice-weekly sessions stay realistic. That is the practical test, and it matters more than most people expect.
No. No treatment anywhere cures vitiligo. What treatment does reliably do is stop the spread in active disease and repigment a meaningful proportion of affected skin in many patients: best on the face and trunk, least on hands, feet and lips.
Yes. The clinical work is identical wherever you travel from; the only thing that changes is whether a twice-weekly course is practical for you. That is discussed honestly at the first visit.
The clinical statements on this page follow the guidance and evidence below. They are independent sources. None of them is connected to this clinic, and none of them sells the treatments described here.
Not a treatment plan sold on the spot. Message the clinic and bring your history.