RENTAL OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT If you wish to rent a wheelchair, or any other specific equipment during your stay in Paris, see our website PARISINFO.com, rubric ‘Practical Paris’, under the rubric ‘Visiting Paris with a disability’, where you will find a dozen or so suppliers, some of them also speaking English, including: Mobilité Services 100 boulevard Voltaire (11th) 01 43 57 69 33 info@mobilite-services.fr Pharmacie Bader 10-12 boulevard Saint-Michel (6th) 01 43 26 92 66 pharmabader@wanadoo.fr Pharmacie Paris – Charonne 136 rue de Charonne (11th) 01 43 71 09 56 contact@pharmacieparischaronne.com If you have French nationality, all you need is a medical prescription to be reimbursed for the cost of renting equipment. If you are a European citizen, you must also show your European health insurance card. Visitors from outside the European Union should check to see whether their country has signed a social security agreement with France. If this type of rental service is covered by your personal social security, your expenses will be reimbursed on your return. FINDING ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TOILETS More than 400 ‘sanisettes’ (public toilets), which are hygienic, safe, comfortable, free and ecological are accessible to people with disabilities in Paris. They are adapted for wheelchair users (transfer bar), and they have recorded information and information in braille for blind or sight-impaired people. To locate the sanisettes along your route, enter ‘sanisettes’ in the search engine of www. paris.fr. CROSSING ROADS The pavements at pedestrian crossings are lowered or the road is elevated in order to make it easier for wheelchair users to cross roads. For blind and sight-impaired people, there are tactile and audio safety features at traffic lights. USEFUL NUMBERS In the event of the loss or theft of your personal identity papers, report the incident at the nearest police station, making sure that you keep the receipt given to you, for any subsequent proceedings relating to the event. To find the nearest police station: Préfecture de police 34 30 (€0.06/min) www.prefecturedepolice.interieur.gouv.fr To cancel your banker’s card or cheque book: Banker’s cards 0 892 705 705 (€0.35/min) / American Express card 01 47 77 72 00 /Cheque books 0 892 683 208 (€0.35/min) To contact the emergency services: European emergency number 112 / Emergency number accessible by SMS or fax 114 (for people with hearing or speaking difficulties) SAMU (emergency medical service) 15 / Police-Emergency 17 /Fire service 18 25