Good president or bad, some things never change: Flies in operating rooms force VA Hospital to postpone more than 80 surgeries.

I've been relying on the Veteran's Health Administration for my medical care since 1994.

In all that time... it's remained the same or actually gone down hill.

From tens of thousands of veterans dying while they wait for appointments to malpractice like 4 different operations on the little finger on my right hand...

Yes, this is a button sewn to my finger

... to charging veterans major money for what was SUPPOSED to be our free medical care, to the kind of cleanliness that generates this:

CBS News May 2, 2018, 6:05 PM

Flies in operating rooms cause Los Angeles VA hospital to postpone dozens of surgeries

A photo obtained by CBS Los Angeles shows a flylight in an operating room of the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center.

CBS Los Angeles 

LOS ANGELES -- In the halls of the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center, what may look like decorative lights are really flytraps known as flylights. CBS Los Angeles reports that more than 200 traps had to be installed because of an outbreak of flies that's gone on for years.

Behind some of the lights, CBS Los Angeles' hidden camera found what appeared to be insects caught on glueboards.

One picture shows the traps are even inside the operating rooms. And for good reason.

"The flies have flown into the operating room at times, requiring cancellation of surgeries," said Dr. Christian Head, associate director and chief of staff for quality assurance at the West LA facility.

"I don't believe there's any hospital in this country that would find it acceptable to have flies on a routine basis," said Head, who is also a head and neck surgeon at the hospital.

CBS Los Angeles obtained emails and memos showing the infestation goes back as far as November 2016.

One titled "Phorid Flies in the Operating Rooms" said, "When spot treatments became ineffective, the ORs closed for terminal extermination and cleaning."

More:

__________________________________________________

Veterans deserve better.  If changes are taking place... changes in attitude, changes in professionalism, changes in methods, changes in how so many working at the VA are "protected..."

I don't see it.