(Bloomberg)-Lake as 50 human rights organizations, nonprofit organizations and international development experts are calling on the World Bank to investigate its investment in healthcare in Africa and Asia, citing Bloomberg News articles on alleged abuse of patients. In stories published this year, Bloomberg found patients at the World Bank-funded hospitals who said they were denied emergencies for emergencies and held due to unpaid accounts. The reporting also showed how whistle -blowers raised alarms about what they call pressure to increase revenue by performing unnecessary procedures in one hospital in Kenya. Officials in another hospital in Pakistan claim that financial reports have been forged. The hospital companies have denied that they have abused patients or to prioritize profits above care. Oxfam International, Bank Information Center, a Kenyan Medical Practitioner Union and 57 other organizations and experts, encouraged the International Finance Corp., the World Bank’s arm to freeze any extra financing to healthcare providers. They also called on an investigation by the Ombudsman for Compliance Advisor, an independent office responsible for addressing complaints of people affected by IFC projects. And they asked the bank to introduce procedures to ensure that those who are damaged by its investment can seek effective drugs. In a letter sent to the Bank’s President and Council of Executive Directors on Friday, the groups wrote that the findings of Bloomberg “Years of evidence and concerns presented to the World Bank Council are confirmed about the serious damage caused by direct and indirect healthcare investments to patients, workers and health systems. IFC investments and in multiple establishment in majority in multiple establishment. speak.
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