Gulf War Syndrome - British MOD gives in after 16 years
Friday, 12 October 2007, was a landmark date for British Veterans of the first Gulf War suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.
Defence Minister Lord Drayson said today that the Ministry of Defence had not handled this issue well from the beginning.
He said : "The department was slow to recognise the emerging ill- health issues and to put measures in place to address them. We have apologised for this and I repeat that apology today."
This is a staggering climbdown by the MOD which has insisted for 16 years that Gulf War Syndrome did not exist. This is a fundamental part of what is Click here
The MOD had previously taken the stance that the gulf war illnesses were too varied to be called Gulf War Syndrome. This announcement today knocks that assertion on the head and furthermore ratifies 1 of the 3 R's, namely Click here of the independent inquiry into Gulf War Illness carried out by Lord Lloyd Of Berwick. This independent inquiry reported in November 2004, and since then, the Government has paid lip service to The Lloyd Report.
At the start of this year, in January 2007, wartime forces sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn branded the "endless" legal wrangling over payments to veterans of the first Gulf War a scandal.
On 8 May 2007, a poll of 121 MPs from all parties found that more than 70 per cent thought that the Government’s actions towards ex-Service people suffering from Gulf War Illnesses had been very poor or inadequate.
Dr Blockbuster has been Click here to implement the recommendations of The Lloyd Report and clearly this is the FIRST POSITIVE STEP in that direction.
Defence Minister Lord Drayson said the MOD had written to veterans to tell them they can use the label Gulf War Syndrome and that the MOD are now working with experts to develop a rehabilitation programme.
We shall follow the development of this rehabilitation programme closely but the Governemt could best put money where it's mouth is by following the recommendations of The Lloyd Report and RECOMPENSING VETERANS
You, please, can keep the pressure up on Gordon Brown to implement "Lloyd" by signing Click here
I leave the last words to Lord Craig and his concise summary included in The Lloyd Report:
Lord Craig (Lord Craig of Radley, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Chief of the Defence Staff throughout the Gulf War) said that the absence of closure after so many years was now indefensible. “A little magnanimity” was called for, and an “imaginative one-off approach”.
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