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After retiring from hospital work she traveled to Vietnam where she saw children who had been born with terrible deformities and birth defects caused by the U.S. chemical Agent Orange. She began working with an organization called Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign and is now on their Board. [23]
A fund was created to help compensate troops for health problems believed to be caused by exposure to these toxins. Although the Vietnam Red Cross estimates that 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange, including 150,000 children born with birth defects, no funding was provided to ease its impact on Vietnamese victims. [9]
According to the Vietnamese government, the program caused three million Vietnamese health problems, with 150,000 children born with severe birth defects, [33] and 24% of the area of Vietnam being defoliated.
Vietnam's government claimed that 400,000 people were killed or maimed as a result of after effects, and that 500,000 children were born with birth defects. [32] and studies have shown higher rates of casualties, health effects, and next-generation birth defects in Vietnamese peoples.
After serving as a medic in Vietnam, John Nordgaard sent home a box that sat in another veteran's basement before being delivered 52 years later.
The Ministry of Labour – Invalids and Social Affairs [1] (MOLISA, Vietnamese: Bộ Lao động – Thương binh và Xã hội) is a ministry under the government of Vietnam responsible for state administration on labour, employment, occupational safety, social insurances and vocational training; policies for war invalids, martyrs and people with special contribution to the country; social ...
And it worries people like Marsha Four, who was a combat nurse in Vietnam and knows war trauma intimately. She eventually found purpose and solace running a veterans center in Philadelphia, before she retired last year to work with the Vietnam Veterans of America. Vietnam veterans like Four have their own struggles. But most of them served only ...
After returning home, Vietnam veterans from all countries that served began to suspect their ill health or the instances of their wives having miscarriages or children born with birth defects might be related to Agent Orange and the other toxic herbicides to which they had been exposed in Vietnam.