It shall be the duty of any State-aided hospital within this Commonwealth, which has facilities available for treatment of the disease with which an indigent veteran is afflicted, immediately to admit such veteran if sick or disabled and eligible for Federal hospitalization, if said indigent veteran has applied for Federal hospitalization and an emergency exists, and the hospital shall provide care and treatment for such veteran until such time as a bed is available in a Federal institution.
35 P.S. § 258