In 2012, Rihanna donated $1.75 million worth of medical equipment to Barbados’ Queen Elizabeth Hospital in memory of her grandmother, Clara “Dolly” Brathwaite, who died from cancer that June. The gift helped modernise the hospital’s cancer-care services, and the radiotherapy unit was renamed the Clara Brathwaite Centre for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine. According to the Los Angeles Times, Rihanna said the donation was her way of giving back to Barbados and helping the hospital continue its modernisation programme.
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