A 60-bed plastic surgery clinic will be built in Israel for Kupat Holim, the Histadrut health organization, with the help of financial support of prominent members of the Los Angeles Jewish community, it was announced here today by Stanley Slotkin, local industrialist, who initiated the project.
Construction of the $250, 000 clinic, to be located at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva, is expected to get underway later this year. Mr. Slotkin, who returned recently from a trip to Israel, said that plastic surgeons from the Medical School of the University of California at Los Angeles, will go to Israel immediately after construction is completed to both perform surgery and train Israeli surgeons in the techniques.
A group of Israeli doctors will also be brought to Los Angeles for instruction in plastic surgery at UCLA and will then serve as a cadre for the training of other surgeons in Israel, Mr. Slotkin declared.
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