VA Hid Suicide Risk, Internal E-Mails Show, Follow-Up Reporting On Exclusive Investigation Reveals Officials Hid Numbers - CBS News
From the article: "But in
this e-mail to his top media advisor, written two months ago, Katz appears to be saying something very different, stating: 'Our suicide prevention coordinators are identifying about 1,000 suicide attempts per month among veterans we see in our metical facilities.'"
What. The. Hell?!
Read this. If this is true, it's abominable behavior from the VA.
More: "Last November when
CBS News exposed an epidemic of more than 6,200 suicides in 2005 among those who had served in the military, Katz attacked our report.
'Their number is not, in fact, an accurate reflection of the rate,' he said last November.
But it turns out they were, as Katz admitted in
this e-mail, just three days later.
He wrote: there 'are about 18 suicides per day among America's 25 million veterans.'"
1,000 per month? That seems
unreal...
- Coeloptera
