A nation-wide campaign to raise $300,000 for the building fund of the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem, will open April 1 and continue through the month, it was announced yesterday by Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, national vice-president of Hadassah, and chairman of the campaign. The campaign is under the joint auspices of Hadassah and the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee.
The proposed medical center will be the first of its kind in Palestine and is planned as a model for the entire Near East. It will consist of a 300-bed hospital, with complete medical and surgical departments, a graduate medical school connected with the Hebrew University, and a nurses’ training school and residence. The buildings will be erected on Mt. Scopa, near the campus of the Hebrew University. The estimated cost of building, Mrs. Epstein said, is $500,000. The recent sale of the old Hadassah hospital property in Jerusalem will yield $200,000, so that the current campaign needs to raise the additional $300,000.
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