An American religious fundamentalist missionary to Uganda, Renee Bach, is being sued in Ugandan court for the deaths of 105 people under her care. At the age of 20, she moved to the Ugandan city of Jinja, bought a large house using money raised from fundie US churches and turned it into a center for feeding local kids. At some point she started providing medical care for impoverished Ugandans, despite having no medical training whatsoever (she doesn't have a college degree.) Apparently she was gaining her medical knowledge from Google.
Eventually, she did employ 3 Ugandan nurses and an American nurse, Jackie Kramlich. Bach turned part of her shelter into something called "the clinic." Kramlich grew disillusioned with Bach, who continued to perform medical services with no training (including blood transfusions for babies) when nurses were not present, and Kramlich was appalled at how sick many of the people Bach took in were - "They weren't just malnourished. They had complicated illnesses. Pneumonia, intestinal parasites, tuberculosis, many were in stage 4 HIV," Kramlich says. Almost every week a child would die. Kramlich says she thought of Bach's actions that "It's just horrifying...This isn't a game." Kramlich eventually reported Bach to Ugandan police, and her "clinic" was finally shut down in 2015. A Ugandan health inspector wrote that on his visit to the clinic he found "very sick children who needed referral to higher centers" and that Bach had finally obtained a health license for her clinic, but had let it expire.
A Ugandan civil rights attorney, Primah Kwagala, has filed a civil lawsuit against Bach on behalf of two mothers whose children died under her care. "We couldn't imagine a human being without skill taking into her care people that were almost on their deathbeds." Kwagala also says there's a larger principle at stake: Imagine, says Kwagala, if a 20-something Ugandan woman had gone to the U.S. and set up an equivalent arrangement to treat impoverished American children. "She would have been prosecuted. She would have been behind bars," says Kwagala. In the U.S., says Kwagala, "I don't think she would have lasted two hours." A hearing in the case is scheduled for January 2020.
I've read that Uganda and several other African nations have become popular spots for American fundamentalist missionaries to set up shop and "help" the natives while spreading the gospel. I've also read stories about some of these missionaries doing some strange stuff - preaching hatred of gays and the need to keep gay rights out of their countries, some female missionaries serving as midwives who have little to no actual medical training, and all the rest. In the blog she kept of her missionary work, Bach almost seemed to brag about her medical procedures, and posted pictures of herself performing types of medical care for which she had no training whatsoever. But hey, who needs experts in their fields in these times, right? Bach probably stayed in a Holiday Inn once!
Link:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/09/749005287/american-with-no-medical-training-ran-center-for-malnourished-ugandan-kids-105-d