Where should you buy hospital bed at best price for home use? Straight answer is – buy a sparingly used second hand one from another home user at less than half the price of a new one. Do not buy a brand-new hospital bed from the hospital recommended store.
Why? Here are top two reasons:
Buy sparingly used hospital bed
You get as-good-as new hospital bed for half the price or less
A hospital bed used at home is like a single-owner-car. In a hospital a bed is moved around a lot and hence wear and tear is a lot more. In a home healthcare setting, a bed is hardly moved. It is gently used by a single patient and most probably for a very short period of time. Most people need medical equipment at home for a short period, at best a few months. This could be during rehabilitation after injury or recovering after discharge from hospital treatment. Very often bed-ridden parents need to be taken care of at home, but they may either recover soon and no longer need the hospital bed or expire soon after. In either case home users find that the sparingly used equipment is in excellent condition, but has no use to them. We have had sellers come up with equipment not even 15 days old and they are keen to dispose off quickly and free up the space it occupies at home. Chances are, the buyer needs the hospital bed for a short-term use too. Then why buy hospital bed at best price, but a new one at full cost?
You don’t want to buy in haste and repent at leisure
Most people who can afford spending on buying new equipment for their loved ones for home use, do not bother to look around for economic options. But when you no longer need the hospital bed, everyone gets desperate to sell it off. At the time of selling everyone feels they have hardly used the equipment, but no one gets a good price. We get calls from hundreds of home users to sell their hardly used or even un-used medical equipment such as Bipap, CPAP, Nebulizer, Oxygen Concentrator, Hospital bed, air mattress, suction machine etc. But there are hardly any buyers!!! So, people eventually end up selling almost as scrap. if we buy new medical equipment for home use, you may have to dispose them off at throw away price. This is a complete waste of money and resources. Why trash perfectly good equipment, someone can use. But if we buy a second hand one, we will not feel too bad and will not waste too much money.
Why do we end up buying new medical equipment for home use?
Why do we end-up buying medical equipment for home use, instead of buying second hand or rent them? The main reasons are:
- Lack of time at the time of Discharge from hospital – When a patient is getting discharged from the hospital and needs continued care at home for a short period, the family is keen to tie-up all requirements before they leave the hospital. Many large corporate hospitals have tie-ups with equipment vendors and some even have stores in the hospital premises for all sorts of medical equipment and devices needed at home. Very often the hospital staff and nurses at the time of discharge would recommend the patient family to contact these equipment vendors. Exploring other options that may be available, including rental outside requires some work and time, which the stressed-out family seldom has. This is how we end up buying, without thinking of what they would do to dispose after the use.
- Easy availability online – Online retailers of medical equipment have huge budgets to rank high on Google – When people need to buy hospital bed at best price these days, they search for options online. The prime real-estate on Google search is occupied by online retailers who spend a lot on advertisements and hence show-up on top. Very few people are really looking for second hand options, that too only when there are budgetary constraints.
Re-use of Medical equipment is a sustainable choice
Buying second hand medical equipment for home use is not only cost-effective but also an eco-friendly, sustainable option.
Medical equipment contributes to about 8% of the annual e-waste production globally and it is only growing. Wasting medical devices and equipment by letting them waste at home or junking after sparing use is a waste of resources.
In fact, we should not buy medical equipment for home use at all, one should rent whenever possible. Read more about Rental of medical equipment.
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