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The Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portuguese agent Jorge Mendes are going to pay for the equipment of 35 new places for the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of hospitals in Lisbon and Porto.
These ICUs will be equipped with respirators, monitors, beds and all the necessary devices to treat critically ill patients with coronavirus.
According to the Lisbon North University Hospital Center, two units with 10 ICU beds each will be installed in the capital, one in the Santa María Hospital and the other in the Pulido Valente Hospital.
In this way, this hospital complex will have a total of 77 ICU beds, which will be prepared for when the strongest coronavirus spike in Portugal arrives.
The Porto University Hospital Center also announced that Mendes and Ronaldo will finance 15 ICU beds for the Santo António hospital.
The heads of both centers have shown their appreciation for the agent and the footballer.
To thank the gesture of solidarity, the UCI units will bear the names of Cristiano Ronaldo and Jorge Mendes.
The Juventus footballer arrived on March 9 at his Madeira island residence in Funchal, where he trains and spends forty years with his family.
In Portugal there are 30 deaths and 2,362 positive cases registered to date.
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