Porto City Hall delivered 30 ventilators to the city public Hospitals, with the support of the Jack Ma Foundation

The Jack Ma Foundation donated thirty non-invasive ventilators to Porto City Hall, to treat Covid-19 patients. Porto City Hall delivered 15 ventilators to the city's public hospitals. Those add to the 10 invasive ventilators already delivered to the ICU last week. 

This medical batch arrived from China, via the Portuguese Embassy in Beijing, which has been crucial in the aide and transport operations to Portugal.

The transport services of Porto City Hall have transported these medical equipment from Lisbon, yesterday, and delivered the 30 ventilators to the Hospitals of São João and Santo António.

Jack Ma aka Ma Yun, 55 years old, is a Chinese mogul, pinpointed by Forbes as one of the most important entrepreneurs in the Chinese market. He founded the Alibaba platform and was the president of that e-commerce platform.

He is regarded as a global ambassador for Chinese businesses and he is also listed as one of the most powerful business people in the world.

In 2017, he took second place at the World's 50 Greatest Leaders Rank by Fortune.

The relationship between the city of Porto and China is varied and profound, especially via the twinning of Shanghai, Shenzhen and Macau and Porto, with which the Mayor of Porto has established several protocols.

During his two mandates, Mayor Rui Moreira visited those cities several times and has established high-level contacts. The representatives of those cities also visited Porto.

The way Porto positions itself at global level, which is the result of the economic diplomacy it carries out, as well as the work by the Ambassador of Portugal in Beijing, José Augusto Duarte, lead to the donation of these crucial medical equipment to the city and to the city hospitals.