Vietnam Veterans’ Medical Assessments
The 2006 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into by Vietnam Veterans and the Government provided for a one-off comprehensive medical assessment for Vietnam Veterans. To date, only 770 of approximately 2400 Vietnam Veterans have taken advantage of this valuable, possibly life-saving, check up.
This year the Government is funding an extension of the one-off assessment to become an annual ongoing assessment. Those veterans who are yet to have their initial assessment are strongly encouraged to have it done as soon as possible and for those who have had the initial assessment start planning to have your follow up annual check up.
Veterans wishing to take advantage of this assessment are encouraged to make contact with VANZ to obtain details on how to have the checks conducted. To make contact with the Enquiry Team at VANZ simply phone 0800 4 VETERANS within New Zealand (0800 483 8372) or from overseas 64 4 495 2070. E-mail requests can be made to veterans@xtra.co.nz.