The Sick Development Podcast

EQUALS HOPE

This is an EQUALS Podcast Miniseries delving into the complex connections between finance, development and healthcare.


In this podcast you will hear how a collection of private hospitals in the Global South are systematically abusing patients and denying healthcare, causing hardship, suffering and death. And they are using your taxes to do it.


Get ready for a wild ride about the dark things happening at the intersection of power, finance and healthcare.


This Podcast is based on two Oxfam reports: Sick Development and First, Do Not Harm.


This miniseries is hosted by Maaza Seyoum, storyboarding done by Audra Williams, Simon Maina is the Producer and Victoria Harnett is the Executive Producer.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode One – Introducing Sick Development
21-07-2023
Episode One – Introducing Sick Development
In this introductory episode, you will hear shocking stories about impossibly expensive treatment and patients being imprisoned for not paying their bills.You will also learn that even death does not offer an escape for many victims.Featuring an interview with Oxfam’s Anna Marriott, the principal author of The Sick Development report that this podcast series is based on.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Episode One – Introducing Sick Development
21-07-2023
Episode One – Introducing Sick Development
In this introductory episode, you will hear shocking stories about impossibly expensive treatment and patients being imprisoned for not paying their bills.You will also learn that even death does not offer an escape for many victims.Featuring an interview with Oxfam’s Anna Marriott, the principal author of The Sick Development report that this podcast series is based on.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sick Development Episode 2 - The Key Man
25-08-2023
Sick Development Episode 2 - The Key Man
In this episode, we will dig deeper into how the controversial and unsubstantiated idea that for-profit private healthcare is key to ending health poverty in lower income countries, and how private equity funds became the vehicle of choice for so many government-backed healthcare investments. This episode features Simon Clark, journalist and co-author of The Key Man: The true story of how the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairy tale. Links to additional resources:  Book: The Key ManDocumentary: BBC’s Billion Dollar Downfall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.