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On Wednesday afternoon, news broke out of Washington D.C. that, “Conditions are so dangerous at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., that the agency's chief watchdog issued a rare preliminary report Wednesday to alert patients and other members of the public.” That, according to USA Today. Despite the horrific conditions found in government ran facilities, CBS and NBC decided to skip the news during their evening broadcasts. ABC, on the other hand, did report the shocking findings.
“A new scathing report about the veterans’ hospital in Washington, D.C., finding potentially dangerous conditions there,” reported Anchor David Muir during ABC’s World News Tonight, “The VA's chief watchdog launching an investigation after receiving documents from a confidential source about problems with equipment and supplies there.” He then rattled off a few of the mind-boggling revelations:
Among the findings, hospital staff ran out of tubes for dialysis, used expired equipment during surgery, and had a device to repair fractures repossessed for non-payment. The report finding no adverse patient outcomes, but the hospital director was immediately relieved of his duties, and authorities say more action is coming.
USA Today also reported that “The VA inspector general found that in recent weeks the operating room at the hospital ran out of vascular patches to seal blood vessels and ultrasound probes used to map blood flow.” They also noted that the last time the VA’s inspector general issued such a preliminary review was in 2015 when a hospital in Phoenix was discovered to have major “lapses in urology care,” which put patients at risk.
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