Cristiano Ronaldo and Jorge Mendes Donated over $1 million for the hospitals in Portugal for the fight against COVID-19.





At this moment, Portugal is also facing the Coronavirus outbreak like other 198 countries. Currently, over 3,500 active cases of COVID-19 is in Portugal. Also over 55 people have died. During a TV interview, the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa addressed a few things about their public and private hospitals. Their public hospitals have 1,142 ventilators and their public hospitals have 250 ventilators. But all the ventilators are not available for the Coronavirus patients. Because there are already patients who have been hospitalized and ventilated.





The captain of Portugal National Football team Cristiano Ronaldo and his manager Jorge Mendes have decided they will provide all the necessary equipment for the hospitals in Portugal.





Cristiano and Jorge will be providing equipment for two wards in the University Hospital Centre of Northern Lisbon (CHULN) . CHULN currently has 77 beds. They will provide 10 beds for each ward and also fusion pumps, ventilators, heart monitors and syringes, according to the hospital authorities.





The pair will also donate for the Santo Antonio Hospital in the second biggest city of Portugal, Porto. They will provide fully equipped 15 intensive beds, more ventilators, heart monitors and other necessary equipment.





University Hospital Centre of Northern Lisbon or CHULN authorities named the two wards in the honor of the two national heroes. One ward is named UCI Jorge Mendes and another one is named UCI Cristiano Ronaldo. The





Currently, Cristiano plays for an Italian Football club named Juventus. His fellow teammates Paulo Dybala, Blaise Matuidi, and Daniele Rugani were positive on Coronavirus. Cristiano was also tested but fortunately, he was negative.





Cristiano’s home island is Maderia. Multiple people are infected in Maderia. Cristiano said he will be providing more help if help is needed.





A Fake News:





A news is going viral on the Internet that Cristiano Ronaldo will turn his hotels into hospitals to help people from Coronavirus outbreak. It is also being said that he will provide doctors and going to give them a salary from his pocket. This news is fake . The Portuguese International always helped people through tough situations many times, including Nepal earthquake, Kerala flood, Syria bomb blast and many more. But this time this is not real. This news has been shared on twitter more than 1500 times and other social media platforms. When the hotel management was asked by reporters they said they did not know anything about that. Neither Cristiano informed them anything.



