VA uses trailer near dumpsters as morgue

"The treatment of these deceased veterans is absolutely despicable," Anderson said in the news release. "To think they would throw a metal box onto the parking lot next to a couple of dumpsters and call that dignified and respectful treatment of the bodies of people who serve our country is sickening. I can't tell you how upset the staff are by all of this."

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National Association of Government Employees’ spokesperson Stephanie Zaiser says the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center used this old tractor-trailer, shown at the far left, as a temporary morgue, and that action has outraged VA employees.

VA uses trailer as morgue
Group outraged that remains were housed in ‘dilapidated box’ next to dumpsters

By Jenni Vincent, Journal staff writer
MARTINSBURG - A union representing workers at the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center is accusing the facility's administration of using an old tractor-trailer as a temporary morgue during renovations.

That accusation has brought little response from VA officials, who said only that renovation work has been finished and the regular morgue is back in service.

In a news release issued Monday, National Association of Government Employees' spokesperson Stephanie Zaiser said local workers were "outraged" after learning about a makeshift morgue that was in a "dilapidated 40-foot tractor-trailer box outside a warehouse dock."

Evidence of its existence was found at the regular morgue, the news release stated.
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VA uses trailer as morgue