Veterans Administration workers can’t be bothered with improving medical care for veterans — there are carnival games to be played during the workday.

In video footage leaked to DisabledVeterans.org, Tomah, Wisconsin VA employees can be seen wheeling around a gymnasium floor acting out the kids’ game “Hungry Hungry Hippos.”

The games — which reportedly lasted “most of the day” October 30 — were a part of a “Civility Respect Engagement in the Workplace” exercise, according to an even flyer featured in the video. The workers — who all appear to be women — can be heard laughing and cheering.

According to the Disabled Veterans group:

The carnival at Tomah VA was organized by the facilities Ethics Officer Leah Finch. The invitation shows it lasted for most of the day. The carnival games lasted from 9:00 AM-12:30 PM. Group games ran from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM. Costume judging was to take place around 2:00 PM in the main dining room.

The Tomah VA has been embroiled in scandal this year after the facility was accused of prescribing so many opiates to veterans, the place was dubbed “Candy Land.”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in January:

They call the hospital’s chief of staff, psychiatrist David Houlihan, the “Candy Man.”

Current and former hospital staff members describe patients who show up to appointments stoned on painkillers and muscle relaxants, doze off and drool during therapy sessions, and burn themselves with cigarettes. They told The Center for Investigative Reporting that Houlihan himself “doped up” or “zombified” their patients and that workers who raised questions have been punished.

Data obtained by CIR shows the number of opiate prescriptions at the Tomah VA more than quintupled from 2004, the year before Houlihan became chief of staff of the hospital, to 2012, even as the number of veterans seeking care at the hospital declined. In August, a 35-year-old Marine Corps veteran died of an overdose in the inpatient psychiatric ward.

“It’s a system that’s gone completely haywire,” said Ryan Honl, a Gulf War veteran and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who in October resigned from his position as a secretary in the hospital’s mental health clinic after two months, filing a federal whistle-blower complaint on his way out.

An Inspector General report largely went ignored.

A whistleblower learned last November Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin had the report “for months” and did nothing about it.

Former Tomah VA employee Honl “repeatedly emailed her office asking that she do something to help the veterans at the center” to no avail.

“All we ask is that our senator publicly support our desire to have an open forum rather than remain silent publicly, which is what the VA does in hiding reports from the public,” Honl wrote to Baldwin’s staff in December.

The senator’s office wouldn’t talk about what happened between the time it received the report in August and last week when she congratulated the Department of Veterans Affairs for “reviewing the allegations.”