The VA has not announced any decision on whether it will
provide disability compensation for four diseases linked to exposure to Agent
Orange by a scientific panel, breaking a pledge to make a decision by late
June.
Despite a promise in March from a Veterans Health
Administration official that VA would decide within 90 days whether to add four
health conditions -- bladder cancer, hypothyroidism, hypertension and
Parkinson's like symptoms -- to a list of diseases presumed related to
herbicide exposure, a VA spokesman said last week that none is forthcoming.
"We have no announcements on Agent Orange presumptive
conditions at this time," a VA spokeswoman said Wednesday, three months
after a hearing in which a VA official told a senator the decision was pending.
During a Senate Veterans Affairs hearing March 26, Dr.
Richard Stone, the executive in charge of the Veterans Health Administration,
said it was his "hope within the next 90 days that we'll have some
decisions made."
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