Vietnam doctors want veteran status
Posted Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:39pm AEST
A group of former doctors and nurses are fighting the Federal Government to be classified as war veterans.
In the 1960s and '70s more than 450 Australian medical staff volunteered to go to Vietnam to treat civilian casualties of war.
They have been fighting ever since for veterans' entitlements.
Former nurse Dot Angell says the civilian surgical team members suffered the same post-war problems as soldiers, but have faced Government discrimination.
"The amount of cancer that is rife amongst the team members, which is not being recognised at all is equal to the cancers in the military personnel which is recognised," she said.
"It just seems this anomaly is a Government disgrace, really."
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Vietnam doctors want veteran status
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