Footballing superstar and all-round good guy, Mohamed Salah, continues to lead by example this time by providing a hospital in his hometown of Nagrig with oxygen tanks in order to help coronavirus victims.
Hardly his first act of generousity, the 28-year-old Liverpool striker set up the Nagrig Charity Association in 2017 as a way to help his hometown in north-west Egypt. Through the charity he has often provided the population with charitable donations for a number of years including financing the town’s ambulance station, a school for girls, sport facilities and even a sewage treatment plant.
His latest donation comes from learning of coronavirus deaths due to a lack of oxygen supplies in state hospitals.
Speaking to Cairo Talk radio station, the charity’s director Hassan Bakr said that “Salah and his family have donated oxygen cylinders to the Basyoun Central Hospital to help coronavirus patients in Nagrig,”
Capped 68 times by the Egypt national team, Salah is believed to have donated more than AED2 million to help his hometown.
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