One of the most known faces of sports all over the globe, Cristiano Ronaldo alongside his agent Jorge Mendes, has taken a major step forward towards helping the people of his home country combat Coronavirus, as he has decided to donate three Intensive Care Units (ICUs) to a couple of Portuguese hospitals.

Cristiano Ronaldo and his agent Jorge Mendes are helping hospitals in Portugal during the coronavirus pandemic pic.twitter.com/jjE88L9Lcz — B/R Football (@brfootball) March 24, 2020

According to Bleacher Report, Ronaldo and Mendes will donate two ICUs to the Santa Maria hospital in Lisbon and one to the Santo Antonio hospital in Porto.



"We were contacted by Jorge Mendes, who volunteered with Cristiano Ronaldo to fund two intensive care units for critically ill patients with COVID-19," Santa Maria President Daniel Ferro said. "There are fans, monitors, infusion pumps, beds, all the equipment that makes up an intensive care unit equipped to provide assistance to a patient infected with COVID-19."

We were contacted by Mendes, who volunteered with Ronaldo to fund 2 ICUs with fans, monitors, infusion pumps, beds, all the equipment to provide assistance to a patient infected with COVID19 - Santa Maria President Daniel Ferro. https://t.co/GqCW2wGPXm — Chainga (@Chaingaz) March 24, 2020

"This unit will allow the opening of 15 intensive care beds, fully equipped with fans, monitors and other equipment," Barbosa stated. "The Centro Hospitalar Universitario do Porto thanks Cristiano Ronaldo and Jorge Mendes for this very useful initiative, at a time when the country needs everyone so much."



Rumours of the Juventus Forward turning both of his CR7 hotels in Portugal into COVID-19 medical camps also made headlines a couple of weeks ago but turned out to be false as the spokesperson from Ronaldo’s Lisbon hotel issued a statement: “We are a hotel. We are not going to be a hospital. It is a day like everyone else, we are and will remain a hotel. We are being phoned by the press. I wish you a nice day.”

Marca have deleted the fake news of Cristiano Ronaldo turning his hotels in Portugal to hospitals.

This is not the first time that we have seen fake news of the Portuguese's kind & humane gestures.

What's embarassing is that he could have stopped his PR team from doing this... pic.twitter.com/TbD03TwQIv — 𝙍𝙞𝙩𝙫𝙞𝙠 (@FreeRoleMessi) March 15, 2020

The former Real Madrid star was in Madeira, an autonomous archipelago of Portugal, and his birthplace along with his family to spend some time with his mother who is healing from a stroke and announced that he will seek quarantine at home especially with Italy becoming the new epicentre of the virus and his Juventus teammate Daniele Rugani being tested positive with the respiratory disease.



Cristiano Ronaldo has told Juventus that he won’t come back from Portugal after teammate Daniele Rugani tested positive for Coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/tYpeeVGVTJ — Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) March 12, 2020

At the time of publishing this article, Portugal has reported at least 2,300 cases and over 30 deaths caused by the disease.



Under such difficult times, we need more and more people to step up just like Cristiano Ronaldo and do their bit in combating the pandemic with the most important measure being social distancing.

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