Leroy N. Soetoro
2016-12-03 21:35:20 UTC
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For years veterans across the country have languished in VA hospitals,
with thousands dying waiting for care. Suicide hotlines go unanswered and
at least one hospital in Illinois, dead bodies were left in the morgue for
months. Other hospitals are filled with black mold and roaches. Since the
VA scandal broke two years ago, wait times haven't improved. At some
hospitals wait times are now double what they were in 2014.
But it gets worse. According to a local news report from WEAU News 13, as
many as 600 veterans may have been infected with life threatening, lethal
and incurable diseases due to a lack of following basic health protocol at
a Wisconsin VA hospital. Adding insult to injury, the allegedly
responsible dentist wasn't fired but instead moved to an overpaid,
administrative desk job where he likely continued to pay little care to
veterans needing help.
The Tomah VA says it's in the process of notifying 592 veterans that they
may be infected with Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV after they received
care from one particular dental provider.
Acting Medical Center Director Victoria Brahm said the dentist was using
his own equipment, then cleaning it and reusing it, which violates the
VA's regulations.
The Tomah VA says it uses sterile and disposable equipment.
The VA says he did this for one year, from October 2015 through October
2016.
It came to light when someone filling in for his assistant noticed what
was going on and reported it.
That dentist has been removed from patient care and is now working in an
administrative role.
The VA also referred the case to the inspector general for assessment of
any criminal charges.
"It was purposeful that he was violating VA regulations," Brahm said.
"During all of the orientation, he used all of our equipment. He used it
appropriately, so it was very purposeful from what we found in our
investigation that he knew exactly what he was doing, and preferred to use
his own equipment against procedure."
This horrifying story is just another example of a lack of accountability
plaguing the VA system and the consequences are lethal. How did this guy
get through 592 patients before someone said anything? And why the hell
was he shifted to a desk job instead of immediately fired and investigated
for putting people's lives at risk?
President-elect Donald Trump is currently vetting candidates for VA
Secretary. Army veteran Pete Hegseth, who has been a VA reform advocate
for years, is on his short list.
--
Donald J. Trump, 306 electoral votes to 232, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton and put an end to Barack Obama on November
8, 2016. The clown car parade of the democrat party ran out of gas.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
His Omnipotence Barack Hussein Obama, declared himself "Pooptator" of all
mentally ill homosexuals and crossdressers, while declaring where they
will defecate.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
hospital-workers-may-have-infected-hundreds-of-veterans-with-hiv-
n2253292?utm_source=TopBreakingNewsCarousel&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=
BreakingNewsCarousel
For years veterans across the country have languished in VA hospitals,
with thousands dying waiting for care. Suicide hotlines go unanswered and
at least one hospital in Illinois, dead bodies were left in the morgue for
months. Other hospitals are filled with black mold and roaches. Since the
VA scandal broke two years ago, wait times haven't improved. At some
hospitals wait times are now double what they were in 2014.
But it gets worse. According to a local news report from WEAU News 13, as
many as 600 veterans may have been infected with life threatening, lethal
and incurable diseases due to a lack of following basic health protocol at
a Wisconsin VA hospital. Adding insult to injury, the allegedly
responsible dentist wasn't fired but instead moved to an overpaid,
administrative desk job where he likely continued to pay little care to
veterans needing help.
The Tomah VA says it's in the process of notifying 592 veterans that they
may be infected with Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV after they received
care from one particular dental provider.
Acting Medical Center Director Victoria Brahm said the dentist was using
his own equipment, then cleaning it and reusing it, which violates the
VA's regulations.
The Tomah VA says it uses sterile and disposable equipment.
The VA says he did this for one year, from October 2015 through October
2016.
It came to light when someone filling in for his assistant noticed what
was going on and reported it.
That dentist has been removed from patient care and is now working in an
administrative role.
The VA also referred the case to the inspector general for assessment of
any criminal charges.
"It was purposeful that he was violating VA regulations," Brahm said.
"During all of the orientation, he used all of our equipment. He used it
appropriately, so it was very purposeful from what we found in our
investigation that he knew exactly what he was doing, and preferred to use
his own equipment against procedure."
This horrifying story is just another example of a lack of accountability
plaguing the VA system and the consequences are lethal. How did this guy
get through 592 patients before someone said anything? And why the hell
was he shifted to a desk job instead of immediately fired and investigated
for putting people's lives at risk?
President-elect Donald Trump is currently vetting candidates for VA
Secretary. Army veteran Pete Hegseth, who has been a VA reform advocate
for years, is on his short list.
--
Donald J. Trump, 306 electoral votes to 232, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton and put an end to Barack Obama on November
8, 2016. The clown car parade of the democrat party ran out of gas.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
His Omnipotence Barack Hussein Obama, declared himself "Pooptator" of all
mentally ill homosexuals and crossdressers, while declaring where they
will defecate.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.