Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is supporting the development of a new Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Greece.
The businessman, who also owns Olympiacos, has made a donation to assist the public health sector in his homeland during the coronavirus crisis.
Marinakis himself contracted COVI9-19 but has since said he is fully recovered - and he is part of a group offering 1.5m euros to provide vital equipment.
The official Olympiacos website says: “In the difficult and critical times that our country is experiencing, in parallel with the world, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Mr Evangelos Marinakis is once again helping the public health sector to cope with the huge demands that have arisen.”
The statement adds, Marinakis “together with Mrs Angeliki Frangou and the company ION SA offered a total of more than 1,500,000 euros, which will be converted into full equipment purchase of 12 ICU beds (special ICU beds, fixed high-tech respirators, special monitors, pumps, defibrillators, etc), to cover the expenses for all construction work and spatial transformations required, the cost of all electromechanical work, the cost of all the medical and nursing equipment required, as well as anything else that arises” during development of the unit.
“The Minister of Health, Vasilis Kikilias, thanked the donors for their significant contribution to the strengthening of the National Health System, in the context of addressing the great crisis of public health that we are experiencing in the country,” it concluded.
Marinakis has previously donated 100,000 euros in a telemarathon organised by the Greek Union of Professional Football Players (PSAP) to support medical staff in his homeland.
Additionally, Greek website ‘Fueled With Sports’ report he has supplied medical equipment and protective masks to Tzanio Hospital in his home town of Piraeus.
