Red Sox Player David Ortiz Donates Money to Pediatric Cardiovascular Unit
Red Sox baseball star David Ortiz is no stranger to heart disease. In August, he experienced an irregular heartbeat and has donated $200,000 to start the Dominican Republic’s first pediatric cardiovascular unit - CEDIMART (Centros de Diagnostico y Medicas y Telemedicina). Ortiz said:
Yeah, I get a little bit sad about it. It hurt my feelings. When you see a child that needs help and you know if you make a move, you can make it happen …
I went back to the States and started working (on raising money).
Baseball is not everything in my life. I have a lot of things I worry about, just like I worry about baseball. There’s some people out there struggling badly.
I’m telling you, a bad day at the field is not even close to what they go through. A bad day on the field, you can replace it the following day. Sick people, a sick kid, there is no way to replace that until somebody makes a move to help the children out.
I think of a bad day at the field and a good day at a hospital. The good day at the hospital can make your whole year. That’s the way things seem like to me.
Four children (out of the more than 600 children on the Heart Care Dominicana waiting list) have already benefited fromt the money David Ortiz raised. Read more about the baseball star’s generosity.
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