By Jillian Corder
Signing a 2-year lease, the Department of Veterans Affairs hopes to see patients at it’s 5,000 square foot Lake Charles clinic by December. The new facility at 814 W. McNeese is only a temporary fix before a larger facility is developed elsewhere in the parish, and veterans have been asking for it for years.
Currently in Calcasieu Parish there’s only a mobile clinic serving veterans.
“Our bus flooded last Friday,” said Jim Jackson with the American Legion, “the seal broke on the thing, and it flooded inside the thing and they had to disconnect everything.”
The mobile unit was meant to be a temporary fix for a few months, but has now been in Lake Charles for more than 3 years.
Calcasieu Parish has one of the highest populations of veterans in the state at around 16,000 according to September 2014 statistics, yet they’re having to travel for medical care.
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