Chelsea legend and former Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba has offered his hospital in his native Ivory Coast to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The Hospital which opened in 2016 by the Didier Drogba Foundation was named Laurent Pokou after his demise.
The head of Abidjan’s regional council Vincent Oh Bi Irie expressed his gratitude to Drogba after the gesture.
He said: “We thank Drogba for this gift considered as an act of patriotism.”
The hospital is set to be made functional by the Ivory Coast government. “It’s up to the state to validate it and make it functional,” the Didier Drogba Foundation director Mariam Breka said.
Ivory Coast has recorded 574 confirmed cases with five (5) deaths as at when reporting.
