October 1, 2009
United Arab Emirates Gives $150-Million in Response to Hospital's Proposal
The Children's National Medical Center, in Washington, has received $150-million from the United Arab Emirates.
The donation, one of the biggest an American charity has received from a foreign source, will pay for a new institute that will research and develop treatments to make pediatric surgeries more precise, less painful, and less invasive.
The gift to Children's came about in large part because of a push from the philanthropist Joseph E. Robert Jr., who in 2000 made a
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