The 24-year-old singer said the donation to buy three pieces of medical equipment was her way 'giving back to Barbados'
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Rihanna donated $1.75 million to help modernize a hospital in her home country of Barbados in honor of her late grandmother.
"This was my way of giving back to Barbados, in a form of philanthropy, by assisting the [Bridgetown'sQueen Elizabeth Hospital] in its continued modernization program," Rihanna said in a statement to E! News. "I believe that this will have a huge impact on the people of Barbados. This was all done to save lives, or at least extend them."
The hospital has renamed its cancer treatment center Clara Braithwaite Centre for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine after Rihanna's grandmother, who died last summer, UsMagazine.com reported.
