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Rihanna's grandma, Clara "Dolly' Braithwaite lost her battle to cancer earlier this year.
On Saturday (Dec. 22), Ri and her mother visited Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Brigetown, where her grandmother was a patient. She made the donation to the radiotherapy unit, which is now renamed to the Clara Braithwaite Centre for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine.
In a statement to E! News, Rihanna explained, "This was my way of giving back to Barbados, in a form of philanthropy, by assisting the QEH in its continued modernization program ... 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."
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