Faith Waweru at her home near Tacoma, Washington.
Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg
The Big Take
A Private Equity Giant Took Over African Hospitals. Then the Complaints Rolled In
TPG told investors — including the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and Bono — that it would expand access to health care. Whistleblowers say it put profit ahead of patient safety.
This is the second story in a series about World Bank investments in for-profit hospitals. Read the first story here.
The sky was still black when Faith Waweru made the half-hour drive to her office at a hospital in Nairobi. Gripping the steering wheel tightly, she rehearsed her lines out loud.