Reply To: Wheelchair Rental in Japan
Hello,
I just did a search (in Japanese) and even then there weren’t any results aside from NGT…
Unfortunately Japan does not have much of an infrastructure in place for renting equipment short-term. The general pattern is that a user will be registered with the local government as being disabled/elderly and listed as eligible to receive funds for medical equipment, they will ask the government for a wheelchair, the government introduces them to a provider who rents the wheelchair to them and bills the government 90% and the user 10%…
So, the rental companies have the security of their user living in the area and being registered with the welfare system. Renting to short-term visitors is not something these companies think about…
