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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is encouraing veterans of the Persian Gulf War who may be concerned about possible environmental exposures in the Gulf region to take advantage of VA’s health monitoring program.
While an aggressive reserach program continues to clarify the nature of any ill health patterns in such veterans, services are being offered today, including a comprehensive physical examination and lab tests. These are free to any concerened Gulf veterans by appointment in every VA medical center.
In addition, a new law requested by the VA simplifies high-priority access to followup care for veterans with any condition that VA physicans think could stem from the Gulf environment.
“I urge any Persian Gulf veterans with illness they think may be related to their service as well as any healthly veterans who would like to be pajt of our Persian Gulf Registry to call their local VA medical center to make an appointment if they have not already done so,” VA Secretary Jesse Brown said. Already, 16,025 have taken part in the examination protocol.
Eighty-nine also have received evaluations at VA’s Persian Gulf referral Centers that have been operating since August 1992 in West Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington, D.C., to handle cases of unusual
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