Veteran missing for a month found dead in stairwell at VA hospital

[RandySF]

The body of a missing veteran was found in a stairwell on the campus of a Massachusetts VA hospital one month after he was reported missing.

The 62-year-old man was found dead in a building on the Bedford Veteran Affairs Hospital campus in Bedford on Friday by another resident, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney's office.

The man, who the district attorney's office declined to name was last seen at the facility on May 8 and had been reported missing on May 13. He was found wearing the same clothing he was reported missing in. The DA's office is conducting an investigation into the circumstances of his death, Meghan Kelly, a spokeswoman, told CNN.

The man was a resident of Caritas Communities, a non-profit dedicated to preventing homelessness, Kelly confirmed.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/missing-veteran-found-dead-hospital/index.html

[The Blue Flower]

1. This makes me sick

How is this possible?

[The Wizard]

2. VA healthcare

has deteriorated under Trump as part of his scheme to privatize the VA and sell government funded VA services to the bribing class.

[Delphinus]

3. Oh,

this hurts to know.

[MineralMan]

4. Stairways in all buildings should be checked on a regular, daily basis.

All that is required is for someone to walk down the stairs on a regular schedule. In many buildings stairwells are not used by most people. That does not mean that nobody goes into them, though.

If I were in charge of a building like that, I would have someone walk down all of the stairs three times a day. Just take the elevator to the top floor and walk down to the first floor on the stairs.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Building security is supposed to walk them and make sure nothing is blocking a door in case of fire.

[MineralMan]

6. Apparently that didn't happen, though.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Time to fire the company and get another one in that will do the work