Tampa VA lost equipment and camera with breast cancer patients data

I-Team: Tampa VA lost private medical photos of breast cancer patients

By: Alan Cohn

The camera disappeared from the Plastic Surgery Clinic. The VA's reports says it also contained “The social security information from the patients" whose photos were on it.

TAMPA - The I-Team has uncovered hundreds of thousands dollars' worth of expensive equipment and property at VA hospitals in Tampa and Bay Pines has been lost or stolen in the last two years.

The list includes televisions, laptop computers, and microscopes. But the most serious loss was not the most expensive item.

A camera, used to photograph women before and after surgery for breast cancer, was discovered missing from a clinic at the James A. Haley VA Hospital last November.

"The photos in question,” an investigative report obtained by the I-Team reads, "may potentially be graphic and personal in nature."
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