By Summer Cartwright
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is making its services more available to student military veterans by bringing a portable outreach unit to the Ohio State campus.
Resembling a bloodmobile, the mobile unit is staffed with nurses, nurse practitioners and volunteers to provide services ranging from medical care and flu shots to mental health screenings.
VA is a government-run system that administers benefits and services, such as health care, to assist service members, veterans and their dependents or survivors.
“Some soldiers can be in some pretty dire situations of mental health, so the VA has different things set up to help,” 
said Yannis Hadjiyannis, a current member of the Army Reserve and a fifth-year in molecular genetics. “The VA providing medical assistance to veterans is one of the best things that they can do.”
The mobile-outreach unit makes many stops each month and has eight planned in central Ohio for the month of December.
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