Two Portuguese hospitals announced that the national football team star, Cristiano Ronaldo, Juventus player, and his agent and fellow citizen George Mendiche, will donate three intensive care units to help them cope with the emerging Corona virus.
A spokesman for the Hospital University Center in northern Lisbon, told AFP that Ronaldo and Mendesch will provide him with "two intensive care units", each with a capacity of ten families.
The hospital explained that the unit includes beds, respirators and cardiovascular machines, considering that they are "essential equipment to help patients infected with the Covid-19 + virus," which has caused the deaths of about 17,000 people in the world.
The center includes the hospitals of Santa Maria and Boledo Valenti, with a capacity of 77 beds now.
Ronaldo and Mendesch will also donate care unit to Santo Antonio Hospital at the Hospital University Center in Porto (North).
"This is a very important investment that includes more than a dozen respirators and other essential equipment," Yoriko Castro Alves, director of the hospital's surgical department, told the daily "Journal de Noticias".
He explained that the two donors will be named after this unit.
"If necessary, Cristiano Ronaldo would like to do the same in Madeira (his hometown)," he added.
Madeira recorded 11 confirmed cases of the "Covid-19" virus out of 2,362 cases counted in Portugal, which recorded 33 deaths, according to the latest official death toll.
Ronaldo, who won the Golden Ball five times, is currently in Madeira, where he went to see his mother after a stroke.
And Ronaldo was put there in the home stone after the tests that his teammate, "Old Lady" Daniele Rogani, had undergone. Juventus recorded three HIV infections in its ranks, belonging to Rogani, French Blaise Matuidi and Argentine Paulo Dybala.
On March 12, authorities in Madeira confirmed that Ronaldo had no symptoms of the virus.