Being the focus of attention does not fit with Sandra Ortega. Professionally focused on the Paideia Foundation and personally on a discreet life away from media attention, the older daughter of Amancio Ortega dodges any public projection. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, this pretense of going unnoticed that has marked its 51 years of life has become impossible, as its name is linked to three companies that are irremediably at the epicenter of managing the health crisis : the pharmaceutical company PharmaMar, the hotel chain Room Mate and the textile multinational Inditex. As adults, the altruistic facet that has accompanied him throughout his adult life has been accentuated in recent weeks and, at a particular level, he has made a significant donation of medical equipment that includes more than a million surgical masks.

His discretion does not allow knowing how he is facing this complicated situation on a personal level, but it will be easy to deduce the satisfaction that it will have caused him this week to know that the PharmaMar drug against Covid-19 has received the green light. The one who is, according to the Forbes 2020 list, the richest woman in Spain with an estimated fortune 5,504.7 million euros is also one of the significant shareholders of this pharmaceutical company, holding 5.01% through its company Rops Corunna Participaciones Empresariales SL.

Ortega's eldest daughter is, therefore, indirectly responsible for the Galician company working to deal with the coronavirus at the pharmaceutical level. The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has just authorized PharmaMar the APLICOV-PC clinical trial with Aplidin in 27 patients with coronavirus in the Madrid hospitals Ramón y Cajal, Universitario Montepríncipe and Clínico San Carlos. Many medical hopes for the treatment of the disease are focused on the success of this study.

While everything places her at the epicenter of crisis management, Sandra Ortega continues to bet on that shadow role to which she has subscribed and from the Paideia Foundation that she has chaired since the death of her mother - also a philanthropist and co-founder of Inditex Rosalía Mera- discard any publicity. Consulted by LOC, the entity only confirms that "in a timely manner" they have collaborated with the donation of medical supplies, but it refuses to publicize the details of their altruistic actions, as they allege that it is not one of the Foundation's axes of work. , established in 1986 and focused on the training and employment of groups with fewer opportunities, especially people with disabilities.

In addition to its participation in Pharma Mar, the investment group Rosp Corunna has 30.4% of Room Mate, the hotel chain of Kike Sarasola, which in the first days of the pandemic in Spain gave up two of its six hotels in Madrid to free space in the community hospitals and, in the most critical moments of the disease, turned the six Madrid establishments into accommodations for the health workers who fight against the disease and into residential social hotels to welcome healthy older people coming from residences to protect them from infections Over the last few weeks, the initiative reached 13 of the company's facilities, doubling the altruistic contributions of another of the companies that increase Sandra's heritage.

Inditex empire has also been fundamental in the health management of the crisis. Although far from the day-to-day life of the company, it owns 5.05% of the shareholding of the multinational that made its entire logistics network available to the Government and companies and individuals to move more than 35 million health protection units to Spain, in addition to making donations worth 25 million euros.

The logistics corridor established by Inditex with China for the transport of medical units was essential for purchases made by the Government, autonomous communities, hospitals, private contributions from many companies, private donations, and purchases made by Inditex and the Foundation to arrive in the country. Amancio Ortega. Sandra has no participation in the Foundation, whose patronage includes, among others, her father, his second wife, Flora Pérez, and their youngest daughter, Marta. But it is, in part, responsible, as a shareholder, for the altruistic work of the company. Her husband, Pablo Gómez, is also a director of the company.

On one of the weekly flights from China loaded with Inditex-enabled protection units against the Covid-19, the personal contribution of Sandra herself also arrived in Spain, who paid with her fortune for the aforementioned million masks, 5,000 suits protectors and protective screens in an amount that has not transpired due to the total secrecy that always surrounds the life of this woman from A Coruña, who, about to turn 52, has increased the fortune inherited from her mother.

Sandra is in the care of her brother Marcos, son of Rosalía Mera and Amancio Ortega who was born with a severe disability and for whom she is legally responsible. According to sources consulted by this supplement, he is passing through his house with a farm in the A Coruña town of Oleiros, where he works to take care of his garden and has raised his three children: Martiño, Antía and Uxía.

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