Cristiano Ronaldo and agent Jorge Mendes have donated €1 million (£920,000/$1.08 million) to help three intensive care units in Portugal in their fight against coronavirus.

 The donation will help intensive care units in Porto and Lisbon source crucial equipment including beds and ventilators.

The pair are donating medical equipment to two wards at Lisbon’s Santa Maria hospital, including 20 beds, ventilators, heart monitors, infusion pumps and syringes. The two will also equip a ward at 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."

The president of the board of Centro Hospitalar Universitario do Porto, Paulo Barbosa, laid out exactly how Ronaldo and Mendes’ contribution would help the ICU.

READ ALSO:

Manu Dibango: African saxophone legend dies of Covid-19

"This unit will allow the opening of 15 intensive care beds, fully equipped with fans, monitors and other equipment," 

"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."

“We want to thank Ronaldo and Mendes for the initiative, which is so useful at the time the country needs everyone so much,” Paulo Barbosa, president of Santo Antonio’s administrative council, said in a statement."

Similar donations have been made on Tuesday by Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola.

Portugal declared a state of emergency last week with restrictions on people’s movements.