Jorge Mendes has begun to acquire medical supplies to provide the São João hospital in Porto to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. The soccer agent has acquired two hundred thousand individual protection gowns and one thousand ventolin applicators. And in the next few days, when he gets the material he is looking for all over the world, he will buy 50,000 masks and donate them also to Portuguese hospitals.
As you have been able to know ACE, after Mendes' initiative, several footballers, some of whom he represents as Cristiano RonaldoThey can be encouraged to use their resources for the good of society. It is expected that in the next few hours footballers from around the world will join in the necessary aid to combat the virus. Cristiano Ronaldo is in his native Madeira serving Juventus team quarantine because he traveled there to see his mother who had suffered a stroke and had to withdraw at home.
In Spain this initiative has been taken by the family Ortega from Inditex and it is expected that in the next few hours Spain will receive the much-needed material in Spanish hospitals. Amancio Ortega's daughter, Sandra will donate more than a million masks, 5,000 protective suits and a number of protective screens still to be determined, according to The voice of Galicia.
The same information indicates that the material was purchased from a Chinese supplier and is expected to arrive shortly. Inditex announced this week that it would donate 300,000 surgical masks, to which other material will be added. In addition, the textile company has joined the manufacture of dressing gowns and other types of material. Specifically, it is going to start manufacturing sanitary masks, gloves, goggles, caps, leggings and facial protectors.
The initiative of the Ortega family in Spain and Jorge Mendes in Portugal can produce a knock-on effect and it is expected that more people with possible investments in sanitary material. The spokeswoman for Gestifute, company of Mendes, Manuela Brandao The initiative pointed out in social networks: “In the face of the health emergency affecting our country, Jorge Mendes and Gestifute undertake to contribute to the reinforcement of the resources that serve the hospital establishments of our country in the fight against the Covid-19 virus. In this sense, Jorge Mendes has ordered (with delivery scheduled for the first week of April) three ventilators, which will serve two hospitals in the north of the country. “