Heavy metal band Metallica donates 250,000 euros for Romanian pediatric hospital
Metallica
AmericanheavymetalbandMetallica has donated250,000eurosto aRomanianassociation building the country's firstpediatriconcologyhospital, they said on Wednesday.
The donation to Daruieste Viata (Give Life), founded in 2012, came ahead of theband's sold-out concert on Wednesday, it's fourth in the European Union state since 1999, the association said on its Facebook page.
The donation was made through theband's non-profit foundation All Within My Hands, it said in a statement.
Construction began in mid-2018 on thehospitalin Bucharest, one of the few to be built in Romania over the last three decades.
The project is expected to be completed next year, with donations from 260,000 individuals and slightly fewer than 2,000 companies so far.
Romania has one of the EU's least developed infrastructure due to weak public administration, corruption, and bureaucracy, despite years of strong economic growth and billions of eurosin EU funding.
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The current government has repeatedly postponed plans to build three new regionalhospitals for which the EU has allocated fund