Canadian care for wounded:Bringing Our Wounded Home Safely

Improve care for troops: Senate
All Canadian soldiers physically or psychologically wounded in Afghanistan must be guaranteed state-of-the-art, special treatment when they return home from war, a Senate committee urges in a new report. Full Story
Improve care for troops: Senate
Report calls for state-of-the-art medical treatment for Afghan veterans
By KATHLEEN HARRIS, NATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF
The Toronto Sun
OTTAWA -- All Canadian soldiers physically or psychologically wounded in Afghanistan must be guaranteed state-of-the-art, special treatment when they return home from war, a Senate committee urges in a new report.

The study released yesterday by the defence and security committee -- named "Bringing Our Wounded Home Safely" -- calls for standardized "first class" care for all soldiers and equality in compensation and treatment for part-time reservists injured in the line of duty.

"If you don't take care of the wounded, you can't expect people to go to war to protect you," committee chairman Sen. Colin Kenny said in an interview. "We want to recognize that they have done something special for us."

Kenny said the Senate group found impressive care is provided to soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan and hospitals in Kandahar and in Landstuhl, Germany, where U.S.-run hospitals treat wounded Canadians.

But the injured troops receive varying standards for treatment and rehabilitation when they return home to Canada.
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