WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The report noted that two doctors were fired for attempting to report over-prescription of opiate painkillers to the Veterans Administration’s Office of Inspector General.
"The report presents the findings of the committee’s extensive 16 month long investigation into how the problems that plagued the Tomah VAMC [Veterans Administration Medical Center] were allowed to fester for so long, thereby resulting in multiple tragedies," Committee Chairman Ron Johnson said in a press release accompanying the 359 page document on Tuesday.
In recent years, the Veterans Administration has been wracked by scandal over doctored records and retaliation against whistleblowers in the agency’s network of hospitals, which hid abuses that reportedly resulted in patient deaths.
