Move to remove Zuckerbergs name from 'Frisco hospital

November 29, 2018 14:31

'San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin announced at a board of supervisors meeting that he has asked the city attorney to begin drafting legislation to remove Zuckerberg's name from what is now called the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center,' reports Julia Carrie Wong in The Guardian, London, adding, 'The renaming of the hospital where Chan trained as a pediatrician followed the couple's 2015 donation of $75m, which was hailed as the 'largest single private gift from individuals to a public hospital in the United States'.

Speaking to The Guardian by phone, Peskin says, 'Given the continued scandals that Facebook has been involved in, including the most recent horrendous corporate behavior around engaging in an antisemitic fashion with George Soros, it is unbecoming to have Mark Zuckerberg's name on the hospital.'

However, 'Zuckerberg's name won't be removed from the building anytime soon,' writes Wong. 'Peskin's announcement is only the first step in a very uncertain process,' she points out, here.

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