GAO: Indian health agency still losing equipment

MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON

The Indian Health Service is continuing to lose equipment at an alarming rate despite efforts to better account for the agency's property, according to congressional investigators. In a report issued Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office said the government agency lost about 1,400 items worth $3.5 million between October 2007 and January 2009 including $37,000 in lab equipment at a Navajo health care facility and a $7,300 trailer in Nashville, Tenn. Those losses came after the GAO discovered an estimated $15.8 million in losses b...