TPG Push Into African Hospitals Raised Whistleblower Complaints

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.

She was on her way to meet a partner at TPG Inc., the US-based firm that owns Avenue Healthcare Parklands Hospital. One of the largest private equity companies in the world, TPG controls and invests more than $250 billion — twice the gross domestic product of Kenya. It ...