African Football icon Didier Drogba has offered his hospital as a coronavirus treatment centre in order to help fight the spread in the Ivory Coast.

The former Chelsea striker officially commissioned the hospital based in Abidjan back in 2016 under the Didier Drogba Foundation.

Drogba’s decision to offer of his hospital comes after an increase in the rise in cases in the country 574 people tested positive with 5 deaths.

The Ivorian government recently announced 13 hospitals in Abidjan and 45 in the country will be used as COVID-19 treatment centers.

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.

Vincent Toh Bi Irie, the head of Abidjan’s regional council, acknowledged and thanked Drogba for his gesture, saying: “We thank Drogba for this gift considered as an act of patriotism.”

Drogba was recently in the news condemning what he termed as disgusting attempts to test a vaccine for Covid-19 in Africa.

“African leaders have a responsibility to protect their populations from those horrendous conspiracies. May god protect us!,” he wrote on twitter

“Let us save ourselves from this crazy virus that is plummeting the world economy and ravaging populations health worldwide. Do not take African people as human guinnea pigs! It’s absolutely disgusting.

“It is totally inconceivable we keep on cautioning this. Africa isn’t a testing lab. I would like to vividly denounce those demeaning, false and most of all deeply racists words. Helps us save Africa with the current ongoing Covid 19 and flatten the curve.”

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