CSOs call on the World Bank to address patient abuse and systemic harms caused by its private healthcare investments
Sixty organisations and experts, including Eurodad, are demanding that the World Bank's Board investigate the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) private investments in healthcare following evidence of systemic problems affecting care, patients and staff.
Recent investigative reports expose grave patient and worker rights violations and profit-driven abuses by IFC clients, Evercare Health Fund/ TPG and their investments in Avenue Hospital (Kenya) and Evercare Hospital (Lahore). These abuses include profit driven, unethical and unsafe medical interventions as well as patient detentions.
These findings add to those from other recent investigations this year by Bloomberg and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and corroborate years of evidence and concerns presented to the World Bank Board regarding the grievous harm caused by IFC’s direct and indirect healthcare investments to patients, workers and health systems. As the articles show, these issues are not isolated but rather recurring and systemic across several active IFC investments and in multiple jurisdictions.