Thursday, November 14, 2013

Whistleblowers cite hazards at VA centers

This is why it doesn't really matter which party is in charge because this mess started long before Bush and Obama but since no one really fixed any of this before, it always comes backs to haunt veterans we promised to take care of.
CNBC: Whistleblowers cite hazards at VA centers
Jeff Pohlman and Dina Gusovsky, CNBC
November 13, 2013

At the height of the American people's discontent and frustration with what seemed to be endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another bombshell dropped.

The very people who were making the ultimate sacrifice to fight for our freedoms were being neglected when they needed us most.

A 2007 Washington Post investigation into the lack of care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center caused outrage.

The expose began like this:

"Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold."

More recently, CNBC obtained images of another pocket of black mold invading another VA medical center. A Pittsburgh Veterans Administration employee and whistleblower says the black mold is in an air handler located in a nuclear medicine area where cancer patients get therapy.
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