Somehow I didn’t really think the reports coming out of the VA could get any worse, what with people dying before they can get seen by the VA due to long wait lines and such. But I was wrong, and so is this:
'New low': Dead vets left to 'decompose' in VA morgue for weeks without burial https://t.co/eRDpmoE5Z9 pic.twitter.com/HSxHLNNAvK
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) September 30, 2016
DC EXAMINER – Officials at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Hines, Ill., may have left the bodies of deceased veterans neglected for months in the facility’s morgue.
A whistleblower told Fox News that staff members at the embattled VA hospital had the resources available to secure speedy and proper burials for veterans who died at the clinic, but VA employees neglected the bodies anyway.
“Some veteran’s remains have been left in our hospital morgue for 45 days or more until they are stacked to capacity at times,” the whistleblower said.
The Hines facility has already taken fire for ignoring a cockroach infestation and creating long wait times for veterans.
Sen. Mark Kirk’s office said that, at least once, “a body had liquefied and the bag burst when staff had attempted to move it.”
This isn’t just wrong, it’s mortifying and completely unacceptable. Our vets deserve the absolute best treatment, but they continually get the worst.
Just like other bureaucratic institutions, the VA needs to be completely done away with and our veterans need to be sent to private hospitals with vouchers so they can get the proper treatment they deserve.