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impacts of our interventions
SUPPORTING ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL GOODS AND SERVICES Access to essential services is one of the major challenges developing countries face and is central to SDGs. Proparco, by virtue of its mandate, is committed to supporting access to essential services within the countries it operates in.
Through its financings, Proparco has supported access to essential services in 2020 to almost 13.7 million9 people, primarily in the energy sector, for 54% of beneficiaries, followed by healthcare, financial inclusion, water and sanitation, education and telecommunications.
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Access to essential goods and services: 53% coverage rate in 2020 (48 projects with access data available for 90 from education, healthcare, energy, microfinance, telecommunications, and water and sanitation sectors).
Number of beneficiaries accessing essential services, by category
Energy 7,402,161
Healthcare 3,155,531
Microfinance 1,753,155
Water and sanitation 805,600
Education 481,567
Telecommunications 90,000
Access to healthcare: 3.1 million people have benefitted from access to improved healthcare services
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Regarding healthcare, clients accompanied by Proparco have supported 3.1 million consultations and as many improved accesses to a healthcare service, via 4 projects . Furthermore, Proparco financings have supported access to 14.6 million pharmacy clients and access to 8.3 million laboratory analyses11.
Monitoring the BURSA hospital: supporting the construction of a hospital in Turkey under a public-private partnership In 2017, Proparco’s financing (15M€) for the benefit of the project owner company BRS Saglik Yatirim AS, set up at the initiative of Meridiam and Rönesans, is for the design, construction and maintenance of a public hospital offering 1,355 beds in Bursa. Costing a total 515 M€, the hospital has enabled an improved quality, accessibility and diversity of hospital services in the province of Bursa (cancer treating services, cardiology, radiotherapy, maternity and paediatric healthcare, emergency and intensive care), thereby accompanying Turkey in its policy to improve its public healthcare offering as well as access to care for populations.12 In 2020, almost 760,000 consultations were carried out at the hospital and more than 50,000 patients were hospitalized for an average 5-day stay during the year.
Proparco’s Sustainable Development Report 2021
