Real Madrid super star Garath Bale and his wife has £500,000 to the Cardiff & Vale Health Charity, it was said that it is their own contribution for towards the fight of coronavirus which is a global pandemic. The charity said the money will provide “those extras for staff and patients that normal NHS funding doesn’t provide”, during the pandemic.
The chief executive of the CVUHB MrLen Richards said the donation is “fantastic”. He also said in a statement that: “They wanted to give something back to their local NHS as Gareth himself was born in the UHW (University Hospital of Wales) maternity unit, and they say UHW has provided many services to themselves and their family and friends.
“Thank you Gareth, you really are our star! “I’d like to say a big thank you to Gareth, Emma and their family for this fantastic donation, Richards added. Bale and his wife are now the second football couple to make this donation after Poland’s skipper Lewandoski who made donation early last month with his wife.
“It’s so heartening to hear they have chosen to give something back to their local hospital to say thank you for the services both them, and their family and friends have received, and to recognise all the hard work the staff and all at our hospitals are doing at this very difficult time.
“I would also like to say that gestures like this are testament to the fantastic work that our clinical and support colleagues carry out every day. Thank you so much.” Bale’s fellow Wales international teammate Aaron Ramsey, of Juventus, has made two £10,000 donations to the NHS in Wales.
One of the sums went to the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, which serves an area including Caerphilly, where Ramsey was born. The former Arsenal man previously gave the same sum to the same charity home Bale and his wife made donation to. Cardiff and Vale Health charity. Other donations from football figures include Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola each giving a million euros to medical causes.
