News From the Cause
Female veterans struggle with VA medical care: (PUBLIC RADIO INT'L)
December 18, 2009
Retired Marine Capt. Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women's Action Network, says the VA has a ways to go in improving services for women. "Even though we've got almost a quarter of a million women veterans from just OEF, OIF, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, the culture of the VA has yet to catch up to those numbers," said Bhagwati. "There's still a shortage of female physicians, female counselors, military sexual trauma counselors, PTSD groups that are gender specific -- PTSD that's related to combat or to military sexual trauma." [click here to view] (http://www.pri.org/health/female-veterans-va-medical1779.html)
