"Approximately 44 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who are women have enrolled in VA programs,” Tammy Duckworth said in an interview with the Citizen-Times. “That’s an astonishingly high number, so it is one of our key initiatives to expand and improve services for female veterans.”
Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and now an assistant secretary at the Veterans Administration, says that each VA hospital will have a women's health coordinator. She also says take advantage of the increased funding that Congress has sent their way. [Ashville Citizen-Times]
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