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MORE HEALTHCARE PROMISED FOR RIO GRANDE VALLEY

VETERANS -- Vietnam War veteran Rafael Cisneros said

he fears these services and expansions will come

a little too late for many of his fellow veterans.

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More Healthcare Promised For Valley Vets

Reported by Denisse Cantu

Applause, hugs and camera flashes greeted Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as she brought Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake for his first ever tour of the Rio Grande Valley.

Hutchison called it a much needed visit to continue bringing Valley veterans proper health care.

"Our grateful nation must care for those who have answered their call to serve after they leave the battlefield," says Hutchison.

By the end of 2008, dozens of new services, such as cardiology, neurology and oncology, will be added to the current South Texas VA Health Care Center in Harlingen.

"If we can have someone in-house that can provide those services, certainly it's going to eliminate many trips to San Antonio," said one veteran at the meeting.

Secretary Peake agreed.

"I'm not a big one of having people travel, you know, 10 hours," Peake said.

The trip to San Antonio may be eliminated for many Valley veterans within the next two years as a much bigger facility is added.

"A 158,000-square-foot VA facility in Harlingen that would provide specialty care that would include cancer treatment and outpatient surgery," Hutchison said.

Once the facility is completed in 2010, Senator Hutchison said this will reduce trips to San Antonio by 95 percent.

That's news that brings a smile to many veterans.

"We are happy that this services are materializing," said veteran Felix Rodriguez.

But Vietnam War veteran Rafael Cisneros said he fears these services and expansions will come a little too late for many of his fellow veterans.

"A lot of veterans that we asked to come over could not because of their sickness," he said.

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