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Updated:March 28, 2024
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Once your pregnancy is confirmed by a doctor, Submit a notification of pregnancy to your local regional city office. At this time, you will be given a Maternal and Child Health Handbook, a Maternal and Child Health Bag, and a file.
Items in the bag and file
Receive pregnancy health checkups for health management during pregnancy and ensuring safe pregnancy and childbirth. If you present pregnancy health checkup-forms to a designated medical institutions in the Tokyo metropolitan area and receives pregnancy health checkups, you can receive a partial subsidy for the checkup expenses.
If hospitalization is required during pregnancy due to pregnancy-induced hypertension or other reasons, a subsidy for the medical treatment costs is available. (Income restrictions apply if the hospitalized period is less than 26 days.)
*Apply for a medical treatment cost subsidy within three months of discharge from the hospital.
Inquiries: Health and Welfare Subsection, Residents Support Section, each Regional City Office
Inquiries: Public Healthcare Subsection, Health Promotion Section
Tel: 03-6400-0084
Minato City offers maternity classes and parenting classes in which the participants can learn a wide range of knowledge and information about pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing.
Intended audience: Expectant mothers, and their partners.
Inquiries: Public Healthcare Subsection, Health Promotion Section
Tel: 03-6400-0084
A newborn hearing screening is a test to check for hearing disability in newborns. The newborn hearing screening checkup-form is included in the Maternal and Child Health Bag. If you use the newborn hearing screening checkup-form at a designated medical institution in Tokyo within 50 days of your baby's birth, you can receive a partial subsidy for the expense. The test is done while the baby is asleep.
Inquiries: Public Healthcare Subsection, Health Promotion Section
Tel: 03-6400-0084
The pregnancy health checkup-forms and the newborn hearing screening checkup-form may only be used at designated medical institutions in Tokyo. When you receive checkups at a medical institution outside Tokyo or at a maternity center (in or outside Tokyo), you can receive a partial subsidy for the checkup expenses. For details, see the information and the application form provided along with your Maternal and Child Health Handbook.
Inquiries: Public Healthcare Subsection, Health Promotion Section
Tel: 03-6400-0084
Health and Welfare Subsection, Residents Support Section, each Regional City Office
It is a system to provide support for childbirth at designated hospitals to expectant mothers who cannot be hospitalized for childbirth for financial reasons.
Inquiries: Family Counseling Subsection, Children and Families Support Center
Tel: 03-5962-7214
If your childbirth expenses exceed the lump-sum childbirth allowance paid by your health insurance, Minato City will subsidize the difference between the childbirth expenses (Subject to a maximum limit) and the lump-sum childbirth allowance.
*Apply within a year of the child’s day of birth.
*There are no restrictions by income tax.
Intended audience: The subsidy is paid when all of the following conditions are true:
Inquiries: Health and Welfare Subsection, Residents Support Section, each Regional City Office
Children’s Benefits Subsection, Child and Family Section
Tel: 03-3578-2433
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