Senator urges faster action on MRIs for the battlefield
A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee asked Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to speed up efforts for placing two advanced imaging machines in Afghanistan to help treat rising numbers of mild traumatic brain injuries among troops exposed to blasts.
“We owe it to our brave men and women to provide them the best possible medical care,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., wrote in a letter Tuesday.
USA TODAY reported Friday that Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, requested the magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machines in November. He says he has grown frustrated that it may take 10 months to a year for the equipment to reach the war zone.
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