Families Allege State Veterans Home in EL Paso Neglects Patients

[Monkeyman]

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_4239845

James Pai lies in his hospital bed,his bone-thin body exposed for video camera.Under his gown,he is clad only in a diaper.His arms and legs are covered with blood-red sores,and he urges the videographer ,his lawyer,to get him out of state veterans home where he has been placed.

Last month, Pai a former U.S. Navy diver,was a resident at the Ambrosio Guillen State Veterans Home in Notheast El Paso. Now ,he is in a foster care home,where he has regained the lost weight.At the age of 79, he is slowed by Parkinson's disease but from a padded living room chair,dressed in comfortable street clothes,he watches TV ,read a paper and carries on lucid conversations.

But his voice strains with emotion when he talks about treatment of the elderly and his time at Ambrosio Guillen,where he was wasting away."They treated me like dirt.I had no dignity,"Pai said."It hurts me deeply inside to think that my country--I served in war,I'm a World Wat Two veteran--I think they should take care of us."


I agree time for change
http://www.vawatchdog.org

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. The administrator of that hospital...

Should be sentenced to life, living in those same conditions.