We write following further recent investigative reports exposing 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.
We call on the World Bank President and Executive Directors to take immediate action to stop the continued abuse, rights violations and unethical practice.
