Minister of Health Spina has promised a deputation of Carpatho-Russian Jews that the Czechoslovakian government will contribute a large sum of money for the purpose of erecting a Jewish hospital in Uzhorod, if the hospital will also accept non-Jewish patients. At the same time Spina praised the charitable and humanitarian spirit of the Jewish people.
The Jewish deputation came to ask financial help from the government, because the poor Jewish population of Carpatho-Russia is not in a position to raise the entire sum of three million dollars necessary for the erection of the hospital. An American Jew, Victor Preiss, has already contributed a half-million dollars for that purpose.
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